PRONOUNCEMENT OF AMERICAN SECRETARY OF STATE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 June 1941, Page 5

PRONOUNCEMENT OF AMERICAN SECRETARY OF STATE

French Policy Aimed at Aggression and Oppression ■ CLEAR WARNING OF POSSIBLE BREAK IN RELATIONS NO SIGN. OF ANY CURTAILMENT OF DARLAN’S MANOEUVRES ; LOXDOX, June (>. .. < The American. Secretary of State, Mr Hull, in a public pronouncement in Washington last night, said that official reports to the United States Government strongly indicated that the Vichy Government had adopted a policy aimed at aggression and oppression. Such a policy would be inimical to the just rights of other countries. A high Washington diplomat of unimpeachable authority told the Australian Associated Press that Mr Hull’s statement could be interpreted as being one of the strongest statements that have been issued by the Administration, and it was a clear warning to France that if she weakly gave way she could not expect to maintain diplomatic relations with the United States. If France failed to heed this warning, the diplomat said, it might well be anticipated that the formal diplomatic relations would be broken off within a week, and in such circumstances it was difficult to believe that the United States’ relations with the Axis Powers would be maintained.