BRITAIN’S WAR DEBT.
CEBSION OF TERRITORY.
PROPOSAL IN UNITED STATES. United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright* WASHINGTON, July 16. The suggestion, Which was frequently made a year or so ago, that Britain might settle her war debts by the'transfer of insular territory to the United States was revived to-day by Mr J. 11. Lewis (Democrat —Illinois]. He announced In the Senate that, as a member of that Chamber’s Foreign Relations Committee, lie would submit a motion to instruct tbe State Department -to enter into negotiations for that purpose.
Mr Lewis said: "If Britain is willing to cede a portion ol' her territory in the interests of peace between Italy and Ethiopia, she might, under the same policy, pay her debt to America.’ America."
The speaker suggested that adequate compensation would include the Bahamas, Jamaica and the Bermudas, Britain also to relinquish her claim Lo all the privileges of constructing Hie Nicaragua canal from tile Atlantic to the Pacific, lie argued that Britain did not need the Caribbean Islands lor defence purposes, whereas in that respect they would be valuable to the United States.'
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Waikato Times, Volume 118, Issue 19631, 18 July 1935, Page 7
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