AMERICAN AEROPLANES
PURCHASES BY FRANCE JUSTIFIED BY MR ROOSEVELT MINISTERS OVERRULED (United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright) WASHINGTON, Feb. 19 It is revealed that the Secretary for War, Mr H. H. Woodring, and the Assistant Secretary, Mr Louis Johnson, protested at Pbesident Roosevelt’s instructions to co-operate with the French air mission in the buying of military aircraft, but the President overruled them.
Mr Roosevelt to-night admitted facilitating the purchases. He declared the transactions were perfectly legal, and France had an absolute right to purchase the aeroplanes sold.
The French air mission found only two types of American military aeroplanes they considered superior to the
German. Mr 11. Morgenthau, Secretary' of the Treasury, told the Senate Military Affairs Committee, lie added that the French Government was prepared to spend G 5.000.000 dollars if it could get 1000 of them by July 1. It was not stated, but it is presumed that the machines are the P:4O Curtis-Wright fighter and the 7-8 Douglas bomber. The mission was informed that it would he impossible to manufacture the machines in the time. Dutch naval and military missions are in Washington buying war equipment. The Armv is seeking 100 Glenn Marlin aeroplanes and an undisclosed number of Lockheeds. It is understood the purchases by both missions total 300 aeroplanes, a considerable number of anti-aircraft guns and other equipment
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Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20735, 20 February 1939, Page 7
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