Ka Hoku o Hawaii, Volume XXXV, Number 50, 9 April 1941 — Britain – U.S. Talk About Orient Defense [ARTICLE]
Britain - U.S. Talk About Orient Defense
Twenty-seven crack United States Army pursuit planes flew over Manila as an Anglo-American conference was reported going on at the naval base at nearby Cavity. The important conference was attended by Marshal Sir Robert Brooke-Popham, Commander in Their of Britain 'sea, air and land forces in the Far East, Adm. Tho mas C. Hart, commander in chief of the U.S. Asiatic Fleet, U.S. High Commissioner Francis B. Sayre and chief of the Philip pine army. Obervers regarded the unpre cendented conference as an answer by the United States and the Bri tish to the much publicized tour of Japanese Foreign Minister Yosuke Matsuoka to Berlin and Rome.