Hew York Timea Juno 18th 1940
Washington Lets Planes for the Allies
Be Flown Over Border, Speeding Delivery
By Th« AitocUlcd Prtta.
WASHINGTON.   June   17-Thti   The ruling means that after the ;
United States acted today to facill- Allies pay for a plane at an Ameri-i
tata the delivery of war planes to can factory, they can have it flown
the Allies by authorizing the ships across the Canadian border, and '
to be flown across American bor- legal titlo to the plane will auto-
Acm matically be transferred as the ship
_        ,     ,        .    rv. soars over the boundary.
Formerly planes bought in this    ThcorellcaIIVi the rulmR mndo lt;
country by the Allies had to land at p0Bsible for Allied planes to tako off!
the Canadian border and be towed j from the United States directly for
across. Europe, although this flight would
A new Interpretation of the Neu- be too long for most of the ships
trallty Act, drafted by the Treasury purchased.
and endorsed by the State Depart- The Treasury opinion was drafted
ment, said that the border stops by lis general counsel, Edward F.
were no longer necessary. 1 Foley Jr.
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