MEETING WAR DEBTS
CESSION OF TERRITORY U.S. PLAN REVIVED WASHINGTON, July Id. A suggestion frequently, made a year or so ago that Britain might settle her war debts by the transfer of insular territory to America was revived by Senator Lewis to-day. Ho announced that, us a member of the Foreign Relations Committee, he would submit a resolution ordering the State Department to enter into negotiations for that purpose. Speaking in the Senate, Senator Law is declared that, if Britain was willing to “cede portion of her territory” in the interest of peace between Italy and Ethiopia, she “might, under the same policy, pay her debt to America.”
Senator Lewis suggested that adequate compensation should 1 nchide tho Bahamas, Jamaica and Bermudas, with 'Britain also relinquishing her claim to all privileges of constructing nil Atlantic-Pacific canal in Nicar-
agua, Senator Lewis also urged that Britain )iad no need! tor islands in the Caribbean Sen for defence purposes, while they would in that respect be valuable to the United States.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18761, 18 July 1935, Page 5
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