MORE CANDOUR

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20061, 6 October 1939, Page 7

MORE CANDOUR

ISSUE IN SENATE AMERICAN SECURITY FRANCE FIRST LINE BAR TO AGGRESSOR SHEDDING CAMOUFLAGE (Klee. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) (Reed. Oct. 6. 10.30 a.m.) NEW YORK, Oct. ’5. A Washington message states that Senator Tobey has sponsored a motion to again submit the Neutrality Bill to enable the separation of the embargo repeal feature from the cash-and-carry plan and the immediate enactment of the latter in order to protect the United Slates immediately against occurrences involving the United States in war similar to those of 1917. A dispatch from Mr. Arthur Kroclc, the chief correspondent in Washington of the New York Times, states that a greater degree of candour concerning the real issue has begun to enter the Senate debate on the repeal of the arms embargo. “It has taken the form of open assertion or admission that the interests and security of the United States require that Britain and France be relieved of the disadvantages of fighting Germany under the arms embargo,” he continues. “There are mainly two reasons why the Administration feels that the interests of the United States require the repeal of the embargo. They are: “(1) Our first-line defence against totalitarian aggression is France. “(2) The outcome of the war may not remove its causes, prevent its recurrence, or slop the spread of aggressive autocracy. It may, therefore, be necessary for the United States to augment armaments, repeal the embargo and create here the armament industry thus needed. Without Camouflage “On these issues citizens can sincerely and honestly take sides without strategy and without camouflage. There is no longer the necessity for confusion of the arguments of one group that it favours repeal chiefly as a return to international law and the feiher insisting that to revise in wartime is a violation of that law. In the debate in the Senate to-day, the arguments both of proponents and opponents were old and‘familiar. Senator Overton, the Southern Democrat, whose record in support of the Administration is exemplary, parted company with President Roosevelt oh the neutrality issue and urged the retention of the arms embargo. Otherwise, he declared, the United States would be drawn into war. Senator Tobey secured the approval of the Senate to vote on his proposal on Monday, but the Administration leaders, it was indicated, frowned on it and it would be defeated. Senator Nye said succinctly: “There is nothing ahead of America but hell if we repeal the embargo,” but he approved of the cash-and-carry plan and the sale of goods other than arms to belligerents.