GOOD PROGRESS
IN MARTINIQUE TALKS
BUT ECONOMIC MATTERS TAKING SOME TIME.
STATEMENT BY MR HULL.
(By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) (Received This Day, 12.30 p.m.) , WASHINGTON ,May 21. The Secretary of State (Mr Cordell Hull), at a Press conference, said the Martinique conversations were progressing so satisfactorily that those dealing with military matters probably would be concluding within five or six days. Those dealing With economic matters, such as the disposition of merchant ships now in French West Indian harbours, were likely to take longer Mr Hull said the State Department had not made an appeal to General de Gaulle for help in dealing with New Caledonia. He said the only aim of the United gfates occupation of French or Free French territory was to advance the United States cause and win the war It was done with a definite and solemn undertaking to return the territory to the appropriate French authority at the end of the war.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 May 1942, Page 4
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