U.S. TRADE WITH FRENCH COLONIES
(Rec. 9 p.m.) WASHINGTON, Aug. 15. The Office of War Information announced that the United States had resumed the policy of exchanging goods with French Colonies, which was suspended after Laval’s assumptions of power in Vichy. The office -revealed that two French ships left the United States for Casablanca, North Africa on August 9. American Consular agents will supervise the distribution of the cargoes to prevent goods reaching other countries. The cargoes included sugar, cotton, cloth, condensed milk and tobacco. Two other French vessels sailed from Casablanca on August 11 with cargoes of cork and olive oil which are much needed here.
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Southland Times, Issue 24824, 17 August 1942, Page 5
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107U.S. TRADE WITH FRENCH COLONIES Southland Times, Issue 24824, 17 August 1942, Page 5
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