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Show BRAZIL TO BUY U.S. FREIGHTERS CRISTOBAL, C 2, Sept 20 (UP) The United States government was understood authoritatively today to-day to have consented to sale of 14 privately owned United States freight ships to Brazil. The move was considered an expression ex-pression of the United States' desire de-sire to let action instead of words demonstrate the solidarity of the Americas at the Impending meeting meet-ing of American republics at Panama Pan-ama City. The government agreed to transfer trans-fer of the vessels from the United State to the Brazilian flag, it was stated as the United States delegation, dele-gation, headed by Undersecretary of State Sumner Welles, arrived from Washington. Welles issued a preeonference statement expressing "the utmost confidence that the consultation now about to commence will result re-sult In a practical demonstration that the Meal of Inter-American solidarity has, In fact, been attained." |