BASE FACILITIES
| BRITAIN AND AMERICA
j AGREEMENT IN PRINCIPLE I NO GREAT DIFFICULTIES (United Press Assn. —Elec. Tel. Copyright) LONDON. August 20 Replying to a question regarding | granting the United States facilities j at Singapore and other Pacific bases, | Viscount Halifax said: “The leases ! are confined to the Atlantic, the I West Indies and Newfoundland. Dei tailed discussions have not begun, but we are agreed in principle and ! we are satisfied that no great diffij culty will arise in the discussions.”
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Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21198, 22 August 1940, Page 3
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