Vichy, Oct. 7.
A foreign Office spokesman denied today that the French Government had asked the United States to suspend delivery of American fighting planes to Thailand but said that Washington's decision to suspend such shipments was very satisfying in view of the present tension.
As far as was know Thai now has 100 modern Ameritan bombers and fighting planes which is a greater number than France maintains in Indo-China.
(i was considered likely that the early initiative to urge establishment of a mixed frontier control commission to examine possibility of reaching a compromise on Thai's claims to the Mekong River islands. That dispute appears easy to settle because the islands have mo tactical and only slight economic value. They are flooded. for several months each year after which the rich soil deposits are used for rice crops before the high water comes again.
Thai, with a smaller rice harvest than Indo-China, needs this output and her claim to the islands is [based chiefly on their productive capacity. According to the French, the-whole problem could have been settled easily had. not the Thailand Government injected another demand which involved transfer of territory in. Cambodia and Laos, which France is mot prepared to cede because it would affect the integrity. of Indo-China. Thai has demanded the region between the Mekong. River and. the present frontier at a point west of Vientiane. in the extreme north, where the river-ceases to be the frontier. Thai has also asked extension of Thailand territory 1o the Mekong River at a point near Mel uprey.—United Press.
Appeal Issued on Eve Of New Jersey Tour New York, Oct. 7.
Mr. Wendell L. Willkie, Republican Presidential candidate, last night called on all "who believed that American liberties must be preserved". to join him on October 23 "in observing a "No Third Term Day' throughout the nation."
Mr. Willkie made this appeal on "the eve of his stumping tour through industrial and northern New Jersey and the strongholds of Jersey City's Mayor Frank Hague, whose democratic organization Mr. Willkie has termed "a "corrupt political machine."
The G.O.P. candidate said that "no matter how capable or well-meaning Ihe may be, there is no indispensable man in democracy.
"When we accept the idea that any one man is indispensable we take a long stripe from democracy ín the direction toward dictatorship—in fact it not in name."—United' Press.
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