LEADERS' HOPES

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20076, 24 October 1939, Page 5

LEADERS' HOPES

REVISION VOTE

U.S. NEUTRALITY LAW

SENATE AND HOUSE

SHIPPERS PERTURBED

TASMAN SEA PORTS

(Elec. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) (Reed. Oct. 24, 9 a.m.) NEW YORK, Oct. 23.

The Washington correspondent of the New York Times says that Administration leaders arc predicting victory by 25 votes in the senate on the bill to revise the Neutrality Act.

All surveys indicate that only a major upset will prevent the Administration triumph, states the correspondent. If Senator Barkley, the Democrat leader, is successful, voting on amendments will begin at the latest on Wednesday. Senator Borah and Nye. the leading isolationists, broadcast to the nation on Sunday, making pungent assaults

on the proposal to repeal the arms embargo. They repeated well-worn arguments. Senator Borah attacked an alleged statement by the British Ambassador, Lord Lothian, describing the existing neutrality law as a “house of cards which was fatally undermined in the last week in September.” The Washington correspondent of the New York Times states that the addresses of Senator Borah and Nye can be regarded as last-minute efforts to stir public sentiment. The correspondent adds that predictions of difficulties in the House of Representatives continue. Certainly the strength of the Administration there is below that in the Senate, but the outcome cannot be predicted. The Washington correspondent oi the United Press of America says that a survey indicates a majority ol 15 in the House of Representatives for repeal of the arms embargo. This majority will be reduced or increased according to the form of legislation passed by the Senate A special correspondent of the New York Herald-Tribune says that shippers are disturbed by the failure in the amendments to specify that calls .vill be permitted in Tasman Sea ports. Some fear that they may not be permitted to call at Sydney. They would prefer the amendment to specify all waters in which they will be permitted to operate.

READY FOR SHIPMENT

LOCKHEED BOMBERS REPEAL AWAITED (Reed. Oct. 24, 9 a.m.) NEW YORK, Oct. 22. Four twin-engined Lockheed bombers are being crated at New Jersey awaiting the repeal of the arms embargo to permit shipment to Britain. They are part of 80 planes completed at Burbank to the order of the Royal Air Force. A message despatched from Los Angeles on October 11 stated that the Lockheed Aircraft Corporation was flying 60 bombers across the continent and storing them at New Jersey for speedy shipment to Britain in’ the event of the arms embargo' being lifted.

GERMAN CONDITIONS

REPORTS BY NEUTRALS

LONDON, Oct. 8

Neutral travellers arriving from Germany say that Germans who uncritically support the Hitler regime believe that no British aeroplanes have crossed the German frontier, and that the leaflets have been distributed by Jews and Communists. There is a large section who are resigned to the war. They are unhappy, and fear that disaster is approaching, but feel that they cannot do anything to avert it. Swiss commercial travellers report that a new suit or pair of shoes can be bought in Germany only if the purchaser declares on oath that he owns only one other suit and pair of shoes. Other travellers report that the distribution of anti-Nazi pamphlets during blackout continues. There are many rumours that many unreliable Nazi officials have been dismissed.