New York, June 19.
That the United States "throw open all her ports to the British and. French navies and merchant marines for r pairs, refuelling and other service was advocated in a radio broadcast yesterday evening by Colonel Henry Stimson, Secretary of State in the Hoover Administration.
Colonel Stimson expressed the opinion that air attacks against British naval bases might force the British fleet out of the Atlantic.
"On the other hand," he added, "assured of our supplies and the use of our bases, it could in all probability Continue to command that ocean and Our own fleet could devote itself to holding the Pacific."
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