AMERICAN AIR
GENERAL ARNOLD’S MISSION TO BRITAIN PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT’S WISH. EXPEDITING THE FLOW OF MATERIAL. (British Official Wireless,) (Received This Dav, 11.50 a.m.) RUGBY, April 13. General Arnold, of the United States Air Corps. Who is now in Britain, speaking to journalists today, said he was in England to gain first-hand information by observation and personal contact with British officials, and to further the wishes of the President for co-operation with a view to contributing to the early consummation of the provisions of the Lend and Lease Act. “This means. ’’ he said, “that we are anxious to send you the material needed and to do it with the least possible delay.”
General Arnold said he hoped to visit both operational and production centres. Speaking of American production, he said this was materially increasing and everything was being done to standardise aeronautical equipment with British equipment.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 April 1941, Page 6
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145AMERICAN AIR Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 April 1941, Page 6
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