SENATE SHELVES RESOLUTION

Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 5, 1 October 1943, Page 5

SENATE SHELVES RESOLUTION

U.S. Foreign Policy POST-WAR CONTROL OF AGGRESSORS (By Telegraph.—Press Assn. — right.) (Received September 30, 7.5 p.m.) WASHINGTON, September 29. The Foreign Relations Sub-commit-tee of the Senate has decided to pigeonhole Senator Fulbright’s resolution on the American peace policy. A Senate committee will draft its own resolution on post-war foreign policy. With the backing of Hie chairman, Senator Connally, a strong move had developed within the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to delay action on declarations of post-war foreign policy till the views of America’s chief allies had been sounded. Senator Connally’s view that the committee ought to proceed cautiously in spite of the House’s overwhelming approval of the Fulbright re solution was shared by a number of leading Senators. Some thought that the committee ought to await the outcorr e of the Moscow conference, and that no statement of American intentions ought to be made till after Britain and Russia had made their post-war aims clear ;r.

The American House of Representative* on September 21, by 300 votes tc 20, approved Representative Fulbright’s resolution that “Congress hereby expresses itself as favouring the creation of appropriate international machinery with power adequate to establish and to maintain, a just and lasting peace among the nations of the world, and as favouring participation by the United States in' it through its constitutional processes.” The A tsociated Press of America described the resolution as a historic stand on foreign policy.