FRENCH NORTH AFRICA
FOOD FROM AMERICA NO WAR X MATERIALS NEW YORK, • (Rec. 11.35 p.m.) Sept. 24. The Herald-Tribune says the State Department is allowing French North Africa to obtain 50,000,000 dollars’ worth of United States materials each year. It hopes thereby to bolster the morale of General Weygdnd’s army and increase its independence of Axis supplies. The goods would include food but no war materials. The State Department was also liberating 12,000,000 dollars of frozen credits for this purpose every three months, as well as 2,400,000 dollars every three months for supplies to Martinique. The State Department had admitted that this was a gamble because the supplies might be used against the democracies. The French Ambassador, M. Henry Haye, told the Under-Secre-tary of State, Mr Sumner Welles, that Vichy does not intend to use Dakar as a base to invade the United States.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24721, 25 September 1941, Page 7
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