Show Hopkins Promises Ships To Help All Nazi Foes LONDON July l 18 AP The AP-The The United States is going to build enough ships to bring goods into the Unit United d' d Kingdom and into every theater in the world where democracies cies are are fighting fighting fighting fight fight- ing Hitler r Harry Hopkins supervisor of the U. U S. S lend-lease lend program program said Friday Here on an official visit Hopkins Hopkins Hopkins Hop Hop- kins told a press press co conference ference he estimated ted United United States shipbuilding shipbuilding shipbuilding ship ship- building yards would make ready for lor sea tons of merc merchantmen in 1941 and at least tons the next year We are going to see that the food is in those ships and that adequate amounts of cheese and dairy products fats and pork products get over here he said Hopkins said American flag flagships flagships flagships ships could of course go to Iceland Iceland Iceland Ice Ice- land but he declined to discuss whether transshipment of war supplies to allied merchantmen there was contemplated on a large scale The president has said our goods are going to arrive he said All I can say is that we weare weare weare are going to do it it it And he added we ve are going to protect our own ships To questions whether American merchantmen would send supplies to io China Malaya and Singapore Hopkins answered only that every ship of ours that moves anywhere in the world has one on-e purpose the war effort He said he could not comment on whether the United States was sending war supplies to Russia or orT t J T ur ke w o Hopkins ki y said he would be here a week or or ten days He emphasized emphasized emphasized sized that his visit was concerned solely with the supply of war I goods He told told- told Interviewers interviewers that great new were com com- coming ing ng into production in the near future New bombers he asserted would be beable able t td reach into easternmost easternmost easternmost east east- parts parts parts' of or of Germany from England 1 |