Show 00 washington D 0 AN INSIDE STORY here Is the inside story what happened in all the fuss and furore over the free french seizure of the two tiny north atlantic islands of st pierre miquelon the story illustrates a very im point that U S british foreign policy has got to pull clo closer ser t together 0 in the fu future ture and that state department officials might have thought twice about slapping bri british policy in the face especially a at t a time when winston churchill was sitting in the white house working on plans for closer anglo american ordination coordination co the crux of the situation was that the radio stations on these two french islands long have been suspected of giving information to vichy and then to berlin on british convoys cros crossing sing the north atlantic also on britain bound bombers hopping off from newfoundland french fishing vessels from st pierre miquelon cruise all over th the e newfoundland banks and are in an excellent position to observe allied activity in this vital part of the atlantic alantic lantic more recently nazi nail submarines rines have been prowling closer to U S shores and it was suspected they might b be getting information or even supplies from the fishing vessels so the british gave the nod to general De to moye into the islands in fact they even let his associate te vice admiral take three french corvettes cor to do the job there was no great secret about it for admiral Mus elier stopped in canada to talk to cai ca i nadian naval minister angus macdonald and also picked up some american newspaper men to witness the taking over of the two islands 1 SO CALLED FREE FRENCH however on the morning admiral Mus elier placed the ri free ree frenca french flog flag on st pierre miquelon secre secret tary hull hall getting the news at hia hi breakfast table hurried to the state stat I 1 department and okd a sea scathing statement castigating casti gating the 4 so S 1 called free french I 1 i thi this s upset the british considers bly because they had been encouraging the french people to think ot of the tha free french not as a so called government but as a government more truly tree free and representative of the french people than vichy also it upset the jugoslava Jugo slavs glave the dutch the greeks and a lot of other so called governments I 1 which have been maintaining headquarters in london and have been calling themselves the real governments of their countries even though in exile however secretary hull seemed to be even more upset than th an the british ile he had made a deal with admiral robert in martinique a few days before by which admi admiral r at robert was to keep an ey eye 0 on st pierre miquelon and he felt this agreement should be kept so his tennessee dander up mr hall cabled U S ambassador winant in london to take up the matter with the british government ambassador winant in hi turn went to malcolm macdonald minister of colonies who was has upset that the united states and britain should be working at cross purposes and telephoned his friend lord beaver brook back in washington to have churchill straighten the matter out with roosevelt by that time sam reber in the st state ate department had telephoned 11 E barclay of 0 the british embassy wanting to know what the british were up p to and every anglo amerl ameri can coordinator co seemed to bs be in every other anglo american coord co ord ardi gators hair what abat the president said to his secretary of state is their secret but in the end mr hull adopted a milder tone toward the free french and is working out a compromise agreement with the canadians the crux of the controversy ot of course is that mr hull still believes in appeasing vichy and the british gave that up long ago the british say that general de did most of the fighting for the allied cause in syria while vichy in resisting killed many british troops so they are going to stick with De but whichever side is right the british or secretary hull hullit it might pay to work out some teamwork in adv advances ancee 0 0 AIE MERRY RRY GO ROUND lend lease officials were puzzled by a british request for horn u and nd hoot hoof meal manufactured from dead cattle until they learned it was excellent for extinguishing incendiary bombs most staggering lend lease request was waa tor for ono one railroad complete with locomotives and freight cars the order has been filled and shipped off to iran before buying cloth for aimy raincoats the quartermaster depot in philadelphia tests it with I a machine that creates an artificial rain storm for military reasons details cant be revealed but the tha U S Is producing an antiaircraft anti aircraft gun that Is more powerful and deadly than any now in use in the army the new weapon Is designed to combat stratosphere bombers |