U.S. WARSHIPS FOR SOUTH AMERICA
Plan For Construction In Government Yards (Received March 12, 6.30 p.m.) WASHINGTON, March 11. Senator Pittman, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, announced today that he is asking Congress to authorize South American countries to build warships in the United States Government yards “at the lowest competitive prices.” This, following the treaty with Brazil announced on Wednesday, emphasizes the Government’s determination to counter totalitarian infiltration. Since the United States declined to sell old warships to Brazil in 1936, Germany and Italy have carried out the bulk of ship construction for Latin America.
President Roosevelt indicated today that he favours double locking the Panama Canal at a cost of 200,000,000 dollars instead of building a new canal through Nicaragua at a cost of 720,000,000 dollars. The new locks would be five miles from the existing locks and would allow the transit of the 40,000ton battleships which the Navy contemplates building.
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Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 143, 13 March 1939, Page 9
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155U.S. WARSHIPS FOR SOUTH AMERICA Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 143, 13 March 1939, Page 9
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