OPEN BREACH WITH VICHY

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 76, 17 May 1941, Page 5

OPEN BREACH WITH VICHY

FUTURE STATUS OF FRENCH ‘ POSSESSIONS REFERENCE TO MARTINIQUE j MAY BE SEIZED BY , I UNITED STATES • [U.P.A.-By Electric Telegraph-Copyrtgnt | c (Rec. 9.55 a.m.) Washington, May 16. J A report issued by the Asso- J ciated Press of America states i that the United States, except for diplomatic formalities, has reached an open breach with Vichy. . . . The Administration believes that the Petain regime has embraced a programme increasing its partnership with 1 Germany and henceforth must be considered in the same category as other Nazi dominated ‘ nations. The new situation has i thrust into the foreground the - j future status of the French pos- “ j sessions in the Western Hemis- 1 Sphere particularly Martinique, !j where a hundred American t planes are held up as well as the s aircraft carrier Bearn and other r ships, also about 250 million dol- i: lars of French gold. , The “New York Post” head- r line reads “United States may c seize Martinique.”