EUROPE’S CRISIS AND U.S.A.

Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 147, 17 March 1939, Page 6

EUROPE’S CRISIS AND U.S.A.

Hastening Revision Of Neutrality Act (Received March 16, 10.35 p.m.) NEAV YORK, March 16. The day’s developments did not bring any indication of the official reaction to the Czechoslovakian incident, save an observation by the Under-Sec-retary of State, Air. Sumner AVells, that President Roosevelt was keeping in closest touch with the situation. Unofficially it was, however, emphasized that the occurrence of the past 24 hours would only hasten the revision of the Neutrality Act, with a possible cash-and-carry basis for munitions traffic assured in the interests of democracies and the hastening of the United States rearmament programme. “Every time a small nation iu Europe loses its political and economic independence by the power and pressure of totalitarian States that fact must be taken into consideration by the chiefs of the army and navy,” was the way in which it was put by a White House attache.

The viewpoint of Congress was expressed by Representative Bender as: “AVe are living in a world temporarily gone mad. Here in America it is our duty to do everything we can to defend the principles because of which Czechoslovakia has been destroyed.”