"WISH IT WERE TRUE"
PLANE TRANSFER REPORT Rec. 8.35 p.m. New York, Sept, 16. Two isoiationists, Senators Clark and Holt, allege that President Roosevelt is negotiating for the transfer of half • the United States 59 "flying fortress" bombers to Britain, in addition to torpedoboats and bomb-sights, says the correspondent of the New York Times at Washington. The British Ambassador, the Marquess of Lothian, commented: ' I wish it were true." The War Department has placed an order for 144,000,000 dollars worth of warplanes.
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Taranaki Daily News, 18 September 1940, Page 7
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