AMERICAN ARMAMENTS
SALE TO BRITAIN AND FRANC E j I 1 Received Feb. 8. 10.20 p.m. WASHINGTON, Feb. 7. !• Mr. Roosevelt told a Press confer-i lence that the manufacture of American anti-aircraft equipment had been ' '.speeded up by the sale of older ( models of such equipment to Britain. ; The President gave this information ;in response to questions whether the United States was selling secret anti- < ! aircraft equipment to the British 1 • Government. Mrs. Roosevelt, whose daily column of comment in a large number of (newspapers is internationally famous,' I but almost always avoids controI versial questions, to-day took issue with the Nazi Press efforts to (“muzzle her.” Referring to the Ber[lin Logal Anzeiger’s warning to her to “keep her pen away from things of which she is ignorant.” Mrs. Roosevelt expressed surprise that the Nazis took umbrage in her defence of the 1 sale of planes to France, since “the whole attitude was that women didn’t count.” She added that she would “write what she pleased,” ad ’expressed the hope that the “Spaniards will arrive at a peace leaving the least bitterness.” 1
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 33, 9 February 1939, Page 8
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183AMERICAN ARMAMENTS Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 33, 9 February 1939, Page 8
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