AMENDMENT OF U.S. NEUTRALITY LAW
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Effort to Reduce President's Powers SENATOR'S PR0P0SAL
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(Received 27, 8.45 a.m.) NEW YORK, Nov. 25. The New York Times Washington correspondent says that Senator Lodge has announced that he is shortly proposing far-reachmg amendments to the Neutrality Act oeo xuse "the present law tends to lead the country to war." He said: "I want a statute with no purpose except that of saving the United States from being involved in foreign conflicts." The principal objectives of the proposal are: — (1) Elimination of the vast discretion placed on the President, which virtually gives hi. power of peace or war. (2) A reduction in the need for The (Jnited States to commit itself to advance foreig . wars, thus restoring freedom to act as the interests of peace dictate. (3 The elimination of the eash-and-carry provision which automatijally ranges th United States on the side of the stronge"t belligerent regardless cf right or wrong. Three other proposed eonstitutional amendments are pending, each designed to remove from Congress the power to declare war on foreign sOil.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 55, 27 November 1937, Page 5
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