REASON FOR REFUSAL
REQUEST FROM PRESIDENT MR ROY HOWARD EXPLAINS (United Pres- A- - * i. —Tel. Copyright) (Received August 22. 3.15 p.m.) MELBOURNE. August 22 Mr Roy Howar I. the American newspaper magnate, referring to a cable from the United States, said he had declined President Roosevelt's proposal that he should investigate Fifth Column activity in South America because he could speak neither Spani h nor Portuguese, and except for cue ric l visit i*e had not been in South Amciica ior 20 years.
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Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21198, 22 August 1940, Page 8
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83REASON FOR REFUSAL Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21198, 22 August 1940, Page 8
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