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REGARDING TRANSFERS TO BRITAIN ARMY & NAVY WEAPONS. APPROVAL OF INITIAL LIST. WASHINGTON, March 11. After signing the Aid Bill, President Roosevelt approved the initial list of army and navy weapons to be sent to Britain and Greece. The President said the nature of the list was necessarily kept secret till the military implications would not be valuable to anyone except the recipients. President Roosevelt then revealed that he had asked leaders of the Senate and House appropriations committees to set up small sub-committees to confer regularly with him and so keep informed of his activities under the Act. SALE OF FREIGHTERS WASHINGTON, March 11. The Maritime Commission has approved the sale to British interests of 12 laid-up freighters, totalling 100,000 tons.
LOSING GROUND ISOLATIONISM IN UNITED STATES. MR. W. WILLKIE COMMENTS ON BY-ELECTON. (Received This Day, 9.40 a.m.) NEW YORK, March 12. Mr. Wendell Willkie said today that the victory of Mr. Joseph Clark Baldwin in yesterday’s New York by-elec-tion, necessitated by the death of Mr. Kenneth Simpson; indicated that isolationism was losing ground. He declared: “Mr Baldwin favours all possible aid to Britain.”' DANGERS TO AMERICA IF BRITAIN WERE BEATEN. NEW YORK, March 15. The Governor of New York, Mr Lehman, in a speech appealed for national unity. He declared: “If England were beaten, democracy in this hemisphere would inevitably be direly threatened. We could not hope long to withstand the impact of military and economic aggression. I believe we would be militarily attacked, but even if we first obtained a breathing space we would suffer from economic pressure, which would cause a fantastic rise in unemployment.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 March 1941, Page 5
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