AMERICAN TROOPS
GOING TO DUTCH GUIANA TO SAFEGUARD BAUXITE MINES. UNDER AGREEMENT WITH NETHERLANDS. (Received This Day, 12.50 p.m.) WASHINGTON, November 24. With reference to the announcement that an American Army contingent is being sent to Dutch Guiana (Surinam), a White House statement said the bauxite mines in Surinam furnish upwards of sixty per cent of the requirements of the United States aluminium industry, which is vital to the defence of the Western Hemisphere and nations resisting aggression. It is therefore necessary that the safety of these mines be as completely assured as present conditions demand. Normally the Netherlands Government would draw on the Netherland East Indies forces to strengthen the defences of Guiana, but in view of the present situation in the South-Western Pacific it is thought inadvisable to follow that course. As a result of consultations with the Netherlands, it was agreed that an American Army contingent should go to Surinam to co-opei - ate with the Netherlands rorces.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 November 1941, Page 6
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