PLANES FOR ALLIES
AGREEMENT "WITH U.S.A. ALL OBSTACLES REMOVED. WASHINGTON. April 15. All obstacles to tho sale of aircraft to the Allies have been removed. The Secretary to the Treasury (Mr H. Morgcntliau) announced that the Allied purchasing mission had agreed to unrevealed conditions of payment without criticism or complaint. He denied that the United States had adopted a takc-it-nr-leave-it altitude, as recently claimed. Seven advanced types of aircraft so far have been made available. The Glenn. Martin twin-engined light bomber was released to-day. The Washington correspondent of the United Press of America, in a message on Saturday, said the Allied purchasing commission was reported to have protested unavailingly against the ruling of the Assistant Secretary for War (Mr T, Johnson) that the Allies must pay part of the costs of aircraft plant expansion. Mr Morgcntlinu supported Mr Johnson on tile ground that United States finance, was used in the development of the 'planes the Allies were buying and Britain and France should share in the cost of future development. Faced with the United States’s strong stand on this point, the Allies wore reported to have agreed.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 118, 17 April 1940, Page 7
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187PLANES FOR ALLIES Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 118, 17 April 1940, Page 7
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