In Siberia or Portugal Washington, July 11.
Mr. Sumner Welles, Under-Secretary of State, told the press yesterday that the United States was not attempting to obtain military or naval bases in Portugal or its possessions or in Siberia, Mr, Welles made this statement in reply to questions based on a broadcast from Tokyo, Such suggestions, he declared, were obviously German propaganda designed to make trouble between the United States and Japan, The radio had said reports appeared in Tokyo papers alleging an impending alliance among the United States, Great Britain, China and the Soviet Union, under which United States military bases would be established in Kamchatka Peninsula Reuter, British Envoy Confers With M. Stalin Moscow, July 11.
M. Joseph Stalin yesterday received Sir Stafford Cripps, British Ambassador, for the second time in three days and the two conferred for more than an hour in the pre- Arr; sence of M. Vyacheslay Molotov, Soviet Foreign Commissar.
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