"United States is negotiating for the purchase of 600 fighting planes valued at an estimated $65,000,000. They are seriously interested in the new Curtis Wright combat planes which establish-led a world's speed record of 575 miles per hour in a dive last week.
The American Ambassador to France, Mr. William Bullitt, was reported to have sought Government ce-operation with the French Air Mission during his recent visit to Washington—United Press.
German Press Irritated Berlin, Feb. 1.
Considerable irritation was expressed in the press here this morning regarding the declarations made by President Roosevelt to members of the Senate Military Affairs Commission.
"Roosevelt Despises American Laws" the "Voelkischer Beobachter" declared in banner headlines. "The delivery of planes to France becomes of 21 Subscribers otoly Cut-Off The "Nachtausgabe" entitled its attack "American Frontier Is On the Rhine."
"After the Fuehrer's speech of peace, comes this incredible campaign of excitement by President Roosevelt" the paper added, following with an article sent by its New York correspondent who said. "President Roosevelt's action is without precedent since the world war. It leaves no doubt that President convenience. of is interrupted early ril in the Hungjao when, for the sixth time Roosevelt is a second President Wilson. It is clear that the United States has definitively broken off with its policy of neutrality. Since yesterday Washington has openly become a centre of war-mongering.|against the totalitarian states." Havas.
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Paris, Feb. 1.
Statements attributed to President Roosevelt regarding his intention to grant assistance to France and Great Britain in their rearmament programmes caused a sensation upon their publication here today.
The declarations have resulted in a been strengthening of public confidence which has been more and more united since the Italian territorial claims.
Particularly in the aeronautical sphere, owing to unlimited resources of that industry in the United States, will it be possible for the democracies to put up a safe resistance early in an eventual conflict, and then to reveal marked superiority.
The latest tests of American planes, the speediest in the world, have proved that such superiority would not only be reckoned in numbers but also in quality.—Havas.
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