SHIPMENTS TO SPAIN
PROTEST FROM MARITIME UNION Reed. 7 p.m. New York, March 13. The National Maritime Union adopted a resolution declarme: that the union will not be a party to carrying vital materials to Spain. Tho resolution added: “Some sections of the State Department have been flirting with notorious Fascists while thousands of seamen and soldiers are dying to win the war against Fascism.” Mr. Sumner Welles, in a letter to the chairman of the House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee, Mr. So! Bloom, stated that the United States had not made bulk shipments of oil to Spain since February, 1942. Any future shipments of oil to Spain will be subject to agreement between the British and American Governments.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 87, Issue 61, 15 March 1943, Page 3
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