AMERICAN PLANES
SALES TO THE ALLIES ALL OBSTACLES REMOVED. CONDITIONS ACCEPTED BY MISSION. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. WASHINGTON. April 15. All obstacles to the sale of aircraft to the Allies have been removed. The Secretary to the Treasury. Mr Morgenthau. announced that the Allied purchasing mission agreed to unrevealed conditions of payment without criticism or complaint. He denied that the United States had adopted a take-it-or-leave-it attitude as recently claimed. Seven advanced types of aircraft so far have been made available. The Glenn Martin twin-engined light bomber was released today. 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 ruling of the Assistant Secretary for War. Mr Johnston, that the Allies must pay part of the costs of aircraft plant expansion. Mr Morgenthau supported Mr Johnson on the 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’ strong stand on this point, the Allies were reported to have agreed.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 April 1940, Page 5
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