MARTINIQUE TALKS
Satisfactory Progress
Reported
STATEMENT BY MR. HULL
Rec. noon.
NEW YORK, May 21
Mr. Cordell Hull, Secretary of State, at a Press conference said the Martinique conversations concerning the French West Indies island of Martinique, had progressed so satisfactorily that those dealing with the military matters would probably be concluded in five or six aays. Those dealing with economic matters, such as the disposition of merchant ships now in French West Indian harbours, were likely to take longer. Mr. Hull said the State Department made no appeal to General de Gaulle for help in dealing with New Caledonia conditions which some Starters have reported. He said that e only aim of the United States in the occupation of French or Free French territory was to advance the United States' cause and win the war. It was done with a definite and solemn undertaking to return the territory to the appropriate French authorities when the war had ended.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 119, 22 May 1942, Page 5
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