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NEUTRALITY PROVISION FAULTY PRESENT LAW NEW RILL FAVOURED COME - A NT) -C! ET -IT VE A N (Klee. Tel. Copyright —United I’ri'xs Ae.sn.) (Reed. Sept. 29. 10.19 a.m.) NEW YORK, Sept. 28. Senator K. Pittman, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. broadcasting to the nation, defended the Administration’s neutrality proposals as fair and intelligently contrived to keep the country from war.
The present statute, he said, was far from neutral. He denied that the repeal of the embargo cut the sale of arms would place the United States in the position of helping Britain and France, since Germany’s allies, Italy and Russia, had not been declared belligerents and could import whatever they desired. The Neutrality Bill was reported favourably to the Senate committee and the debate is expected to start on Monday. The bill was approved by 16 votes to seven, after a three-hour discussion.
It involves the come-and get-it plan and also curtails United States shipoing, except for the .special exemption of United States’ air lines operating in belligerent territories in the western hemisphere.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20055, 29 September 1939, Page 7
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179AMERICAN AIM Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20055, 29 September 1939, Page 7
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