NEUTRALITY RESOLUTION
Senaior Borah's Protest WASHINGTON, March 2. In the debate on the Pittman permanent. neutrality resolution Senator Borah objected to the so-called cash and carry provisions which forbid American vessels in time of war carrying embargoed commodities but permit belligerents to buy here on a cash basis and carry tha purchases in their own ships. Mr Borah insisted this would make the United States the ally of the nation which has the greatest navy, which was Britain, and he pictured American factories and forts suffering bombardment by aircraft of the belligerent nation and being denied commodities due to the superior strength of the enemy's ■'navy. He pointed out that in the case of a war bctween Russia and Japan, the latter wouid have access to American shores and former not.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 40, 3 March 1937, Page 8
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