"NO HASTY ACTION"
United States' Attitude (lleceived 16, 8.45 a.m.) WASHINGTON, Aug. 15. The Government leaders refuse to be stampeded into liasty action concerniug China and Japan, despite demands frcdn a section led by Senator Nye for the invonation of the Neutrality Act. The Secretary of State, Mr Cordeli 13 nli, announced that' the "United States urged Cliina and Japan not to makc Shanghai a basc for military operations, and added: "The navy is ready to protect and evaquate nationals." Meanwhile President Roosevelt, who is spending the weelc-end on his yacht in the, Potomac River, is hourly in touch with developments, which strengthens tho beliei that the invocation of the Act is not an entirely remote possibility. Mosb newspapers are not connnentiug, but the New York journal, "Tho American, '' appears to sum up tho weight of public opinion thus: "America's concern is the protection of her people. The Siuo-Japauese wai1 isn't our war.''
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 179, 16 August 1937, Page 5
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