The Archive · 1940

U.S, Warplanes Gaine

To Allies

Weshington, Mar. 2, A broad policy has been tentatively agreed upon to divert for sale 10 Britain and France between 500 and 600 new model planes being con~ structed for the Army and Navy, it was learned here today.

'The decision was reached by a conference of naval and military' offeials here, including the Secretary of War, Mr. Harry H. Woodring, the Secretary of the Navy, Mr, Charles Edison, the JChitt of Air Corps, Major General H. Arnold, and the Chief of Staff of the Army, General George C. Mar Meanwhile, the Senate Military Affairs Committee yesterday consider fed a resolution asking for an inquiry into Allied plane purchases in. the United States, charging that. they delayed American orders—United Press.

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