Mr. Sumner Welles, Under Secret. 3 ary, of State, yesterday announced that the United States was issuing "unlimited licences permitting to the Soviet Union of a variety of articles needed for strengthening defences of the USSR."
Welles said that the United States also was giving "favourable consideration to requests for extension of available American shipping facilities in order to expedit ship. ments to the U.S.S.R. or articles and materials needed for defence, The permission ostensibly was the result of the visit here of the Soviet mission, plus the visit to Moscow of Mr. Hopkins ea ordinator of the United States aid th Soviets.
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