ACTION DEFERRED
NEUTRALITY LEGISLATION SETBACK FOR ROOSEVELT LIKELIHOOD OF WAR CORDELL HULL’S VIEW lElpc. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) (Rood. July 20. !) n.m.) WASHINGTON, July 19. All the neutrality legislation will de deferred until next Congress, White House announced late to-night after a three-hour conference between President Roosevelt and the Senate Democratic and Republican leaders.
As a result of the decision. Congress is expected to adjourn on August 5, President Roosevelt conceding defeat 'in face of the conviction of the majority of his confreres that neutrality action during the present session is impossible.
* The statement issued said: “President Roosevelt and the Secretary of 'State, Mr. Cordell Hull, maintained a definite position that theSenate’s failure to •■act now will weaken the leadership of the United States in exercising its potential influence in the cause of preserving peace among nations in the event of a now crisis in Europe.”
During the conference Senator W. E. Borah is reported to have clashed first with President Roosevelt regarding whether the Administration programme would actually avert war abroad, and then with Mr. Hull on the likelihood of war in Europe.
Senator Borah expressed the opinion that there will not be a war. Mr. Hull asserted there was every likelihood of it.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19994, 20 July 1939, Page 5
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