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...said Mr. Hull, has an agreement with Admiral Georges Robert, High Commissioner for French Territories in the Western Hemisphere, which: 1) provides "certain guaranties" regarding movements of French ships in U.S. waters; 2) commits France to notify the U.S. in advance concerning any shipment of the estimated $200,000,000 gold hoard from the Bank of France, now stored in the fortress at Martinique; 3) allows the U.S. to patrol the neighborhood of France's Caribbean islands by ship and plane...
...Naval observer is stationed at Martinique to see that the agreement is carried out. In return for these concessions, Mr. Hull added, the U.S. is releasing a limited amount of frozen French funds to enable the islands to buy "foodstuffs and essential supplies...
...Washington the New York Times's Hallett Abend (who left Shanghai last October, after 14 years of service in the Far East) reported that Japanese Ambassador Nomura for nearly two months had been secretly trying to negotiate a U.S.Japanese neutrality and non-aggression pact with Secretary of State Hull...
...Admiral Nomura thought Cordell Hull would sell China or the East Indies down the river, in exchange for a promise from Japan, he did not know his man. Japan, as Mr. Abend expected, promptly denied that any such proposal had been made. Mr. Hull merely said stiffly that U.S. policy in the Far East remained exactly what it was in April 1940, when he told Japan that any change of status in The Netherlands East Indies would be "prejudicial to the cause of stability, peace and security...
...even if Mr. Hull would not listen to a Japanese proposition, the proposition, if made, was significant. It suggested that Japan might be in a mood to go a long way, even to sell out her Axis partners, if the U.S. would just let her liquidate her China venture with a little profit...