THE NEUTRALITY ACT.
AMERICA WILL NOT INVOKE. MONTREAL, Jan. 16. The United Press correspondent at Washington says that preliminary indications are that President Roosevelt will not invoke the Neutrality Act, in spite of Japan’s severance of diplomatic relations rvith Nanking. The State Department withheld comment, but officials predicted that President Roosevelt would avoid invoking the Neutrality Act as long as this was compatible with domestic politics. President Roosevelt and the Secretary of State (Mr Cordell Hull) are known to feel that the enforcement of, neutrality would handicap the United States diplomatically in dealing with the Far Eastern situation. It. is also believed that Japan would gladly seize on such action as an indication of the United States withdrawing at least partially, from the Orient. President Roosevelt is expected to change his attitude only in the event of popular clamour for it.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 42, 18 January 1938, Page 7
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