USE FOR ISLANDS

Waipukurau Press, Volume XXX, Issue 163, 19 July 1935, Page 3

USE FOR ISLANDS

> TO PAY WAR DEBTS AMERICAN SUGGESTION WASHINGTON, July 16. The suggestion frequently made ayear or so ago that Britain might settle her ward debts by the transfer of insular territory to America, was re?* vived by Senator Lewis to-day, who announced as a member of the Foreign Relations Committee that he would submit a resolution ordering the Stat® Department to enter negotiations for that purpose. Speaking in the Senate, Mr Lewis declared that if Britain was willing to ■ “cede a portion of her territory’ 7 in the interests of peace between Italy* and Ethiopia, she “might under the same policy >pay her debt to America.’ r jHe suggested adequate compensation would include the Bahamas, Jamaica . and the Bermudas, with Britain also I relinquishing her claim to all privi- ' leges for constructing an Atlanta C-Paci- ' fic canal through Nicaragua. He urged , that Britain did not need islands in ; the Caribbean Sea for defence pur- ■ poses, while they would in that respect be valuable to the United /States.