Salt Lake Telegram | 1942-03-06 | Page 4 | FDR Criticises Talk on Base

Criticises Talk on Base WASHINGTON March 6 UP President Roosevelt Friday criticised the disclosure by Oliver Lyttleton British supervisory production ministry that an American naval base has been established established established es es- In Eritrea on the Red sea Mr Roosevelt was asked at his press conference for elaboration on a statement made in London LondonI by Lyttleton that the new American AmerIcan American Amer Amer- ican naval base in Eritrea is not very big at the moment but it Is going to be a wacker The president said that to discuss discuss discuss dis dis- cuss this base would be an Invitation invitation invitation tion to bomb it He add added d that he had not seen the story passed by the British censors I