AMERICAN SYMPATHY.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 112, 10 April 1940, Page 7

AMERICAN SYMPATHY.

BUT NO INVOLVEMENT. SENTIMENT FOR PEACE. Received April 10, 10.45 a.m. WASHINGTON, April 9. The newspapers gave the invasion of Scandinavia the greatest display of ■ any event since the outbreak of the war. However, Congressional reaction is comparatively calm. The Secretary of State (Mr Cordell Hull) announced that the Administration is closely studying developments to determine whether to extend the Neutrality Act restrictions to Scandinavia. It is authoritatively stated that the American Semitic Line has ordered the Mormac Sea and the Flying Fish, the only American vessels at Norwegian ports, to leave immediately. ’File Mormac Star and Mormac Tide, en route to Bergen, have been ordered to change their destination. The State Department declined to express an opinion whether the German claim on Greenland which geographically is in the Western Hemisphere would Infringe the Monroe Doctrine. The department said it is unlikely Germany would occupy Greenland because of the British Navy. All the Senators have expressed sympathy with Scandinavia, but tbe majority reiterated that the United States must not become involved in any circumstances. Typical of the comment was Senator Connolly's remark: “The invasion will naturally arouse American partisans hut the sentiment for peace is too strong to permit of our being dragged