AMERICAN SHIP PURCHASE
■■ - COLLAPSE OF DEMOCRATIC OPPOSITION. DANGER OF BREACH OF NEUTRALITY. [Unitad Paisut) Association.] Washington, Janury 26. The States’ democratic opposition to the Ship Purchase Bill in the Senate collapsed, and the caucus decided to support the measure. Mr Redfielde, secretary of the Department of Commerce, addressing members of the National Convention of Foreign Trade, said it had been advertised all over the United States that there would he trouble if the Government bought the German ships, and that the enemies of Germany would regard them as German, and they would be declared interned. He added: United States opinion is strongly averse to the Government buying the ships in toto and handing over between six and nine million pounds, which would mean giving great direct assistance to one of the belligerents, and might readily he construed into a direct breach of our neutrality.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 22, 27 January 1915, Page 8
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144AMERICAN SHIP PURCHASE Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 22, 27 January 1915, Page 8
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