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UNITED STATES & FRENCH NORTH AFRICA SHIPMENTS TO BE MADE UNDER GUARANTEES. AMERICANS TO SUPERVISE DISTRIBUTION. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright.) WASHINGTON. July 2. The Assistant-Secretary of State, Mr Sumner Welles, announced that two French vessels will soon sail with supplies to French North Africa. At the same time two French vessels will sail from Marseilles to the United States. The shipments of supplies are made under an agreement between the United States and General Weygand, with Vichy’s approval, and are designed to restore normal trade. Mr Welles disclosed that the continuance of regular shipments is subject to the maintenance of certain guarantees made by the French authorities, which include an undertaking that the goods are for consumption only in the French colonies and to be distributed under the supervision of American officials.
No military supplies will be shipped. Cargoes will be limited to foodstuffs and materials of daily life.
The French vessels are bringing to the United States raw materials, including strategic minerals and metals urgently needed for defence production.
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ONE SHIP AN OIL TANKER. EXPLANATIONS IN HOUSE OF COMMONS. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 10.30 a.m.) . RUGBY, July 2. Answering a question in the House of Commons, the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry for Economic Warfare, Mr Dingle Foot, stated that as the result of consultation with the United States Government the British Government had agreed to permit three ships to sail from the United States to French North Africa, one of which is the oil tanker Schehere zade. Supplies are to be consumed solely in French North Africa and their distribution is subject to the supervision of American Consular officers.
In reply to supplementary questions, Mr Winston Churchill said: "I think this is an important matter and we must be guided to a large extent by the great and friendly country whose assistance is indispensable to our wai effort." Mr Churchill added: “As a matter of high policy, I am of opinion that the views of the United States should be treated with the greatest respect. I am quite certain that any action of this kind that may be taken by the United States is conceived only in a sincere desire to aid the war effort of this country.”
It was explained by the Minister of Economic Warfare? (Mr Dalton) that two French ships will be permitted to sail with a general cargo from the United States to French North Africa, while two other French ships will be allowed to sail, in ballast, from Marseilles to the United States, thus forming “a shuttle service” between the United States and French North Africa. The Scheherezade is an oil tanker, of 13,000 tons, which was intercepted by a British warship in May and taken to Bermuda. The tanker will be permitted to sail to Dakar and Casablanca and then back to the United States. Navicerts will be issued to the French ships and the system is designed to restore some kind of normal trade between the United States and French Africa, but its continuance is dependent on correct and proper use of supplies in French North Africa.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 July 1941, Page 5
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