Holdup

New York's Daily News last week reported: "Hitler's errand boy, General Francisco Franco, has taken out of the port of Philadelphia more than 200,000 gallons of high-grade petroleum products within the last week." Standard Oil spokesmen said that permission for the shipment had come from the State Department. The State Department said that the permission was based on thorough consideration, added that the shipment (in a Spanish vessel) consisted of lubricating oil.

London's Daily Telegraph reported: the Franco Government has notified U.S. Ambassador Carlton J. H. Hayes that it must have more aviation gasoline. If the U.S. failed to deliver, Spain would not permit Portuguese planes to use Tangier, the onetime North African international zone, which Spanish troops occupied in 1940. Thus the only daily mail service linking London, Lisbon, Tangier and other African points would be severed.

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