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THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 14, 1940
BRITAIN AND U.S. MAY SWAP SHIPPING ROUTES
Washington, To-day,
MR. JOSEPH KENNEDY, U.S. Ambassador to Bri- tain, states he is returning to London with a pro- posal to swap certain British and American ship- ping routes, which would result in putting Idle United States ships to work.
After a conference with Secretary of State Cordell Hull, Mr. Kennedy declared he hoped to induce the British to turn over to the United States certain routes now operated solely by British ships which were already being removed from the routes in order to carry war materials by other routes.
ROOSEVELT TO CRUISE
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Washington, To-day.
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It is understood that President Roosevelt is shortly leaving for cruise in the Carribean and the Gulf of Mexico.
He has had a busy time of
late,
Mr. Kennedy said that possibilities for increased exports of United States lumber to Britain were connected with the plan.
Mr. Kennedy is leaving on board the 8.5. Manhattan on February 24. He is going first to Italy and France, and hopes to be in London when
Mr. Sumner Welles arrives there. Reuter.
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Kennedy, U.S. Ambassador in London, and Mr. William Bullitt, American Envoy to France.-Havas.
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CHINA WAR
Washington, To-day. The Secretary of State, Mr. Cordell Hull, expressed the State
dis- Department's approval of the resolution to invoke the Neutrality Act in the undeclared war between Japan and China, according to Senator Key Pittman.
Senator Pittman told press repre- sentatives yesterday that the Senate Foreign Relations committee would probably consider Mr. Cordell Hull's opinion as also reflecting the State Department's views on the undeclar- ed Russo-Finnish war.
SIEGFRIED LINE LENGTHENED
it is learned that the Biegfried Line is undergoing an extensione eastwards from its southern ex- tremity along the Rhine as far an Lake Constance.
The extension means that Ger- many's so-called Western Wall will be lengthened by about 100 miles, along the Bwiss frontier from Basle, where It ended, to Lake Constance,
The Line already runs along 125 miles of the Rhine, from Karlsruha to Basle.
GENERAL WARNS
AMERICANS-
CZECHS UNDER NAZI HÉEL
New York, To-day. Further evidence of the way minorities are suffering under the Nazi heel is pro- vided by an article in the "New York Times.”
So much food has been taken from Bohemia and Moravia, it says, that there is now not enough wheat and
for. rye remaining to provide food the population.
Stark hunger is their prospect.
Farmers are selling Ilvestock because there is no food-stock. Nevertheless, the Prague Cabinet has been ordered to provide 100,- 000 hogs by the spring-although there is no food to feed them.
The production of butter and fats is only 12 per cent, of normal. Never-
continue to ship definite amounts, all carefully wrapped in Russian paper to bolster up the courage of the Ger- man consumer.-Reuter.
A warning to Americans that theytheless, the margarine factories must should hold themselves ready to join the Allies if Intervention appeared no- cessary to prevent a German victory
WAS
uttered by Major-Gen. John O'Ryan at a dinner of the National Republican Club in New York.
The speaker, who commanded the 27th Division in the last war, admitt- ed that American participation would be "a calamity to us, our children, and our grandchildren."
CRY FOR
A MORAL EMBARGO
Washington, To-day.
He declared, however, that the "simple question is; Shall we act now or await an outcome which may con- ceivably render us ineffective both in the moral and material sense?"
A cry for a moral embargo Major-Gen. O'Ryan declared that the Albes
against Japan has been rais- were acting as a "self- constituted international police force ed by Senator Morris.
to stop in its course an aggression against the peace and security of the world."
U.S. HIGH-GRADE PETROL EXPORTS
New York, To-day. Exports from the United States for high grade aviation spirit in the last quarter of 1939 were 15 per cent lower than in the corresponding 1938 figure.
It is generally thought, however, that in the most vital aspect, namely oil, this is inapplicable.
War material exporters must ob- tain State Department licences, and then moral pressure can be applied, but the all companies do not require licences, and hence it is difficult to apply pressure there.
Moreover it les reported that there is not the same unanimity between the all companies as regards salas to Japan as exista among aircraft manufacturers.
Exports to Russia, which stopped at the beginning of December, had not -Present Indications are that the in Senator Pittman declined to make been resumed by the beginning of Senate will proceed cautiously public the contents of the letter-In February-and-the-expected--heavy dealing with proposals for an official.. which Mr. Cordell Hull had outlined demand, from the belligerents has Government embargo against Japan.
Reuter.
his views but said Mr. Hull apparently not materialised.-Reuter.
felt that United States peace and se-
curity were not directly involved in either conflict. — Reuter.
KENNEDY FOR PRESIDENT?
U.S.
WASHINGTON, TO-DAY. MR. JOSEPH KENNEDY, AMBASSADOR TO BRITAIN, TOLD NEWSPAPERMEN YESTERDAY THAT HE WOULD MAKE A STATE- MENT LATER AS TO WHETHER HE WOULD PERMIT THE USE OF HIS NAME IN THE MASSACHU- SETTS PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARY ELECTION ON MAY 30.
Nomination papers for the delegates to the National Convention, who would be pledged to Mr. Kennedy, have been taken out by attorney John McCarthy, according to a Boston telegram.
Mr. McCarthy said Mr. Kennedy would file the recessary authorisation to enter his name before the final date on March 5. Reuter.
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