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SCHEME TO PROHIBIT EXPORT AMERICA GIVES LEAD By Cable.—Press Association. — Copyright. WASHINGTON, Monday. The Foreign Affairs Committee of the House of Representatives to-day unanimously reported to the House in favour of a resolution moved by Mr. T. E. Burton, a member of the committee and advocating the prohibition of the exportation of arms, munitions, or implements of war, to any nation engaged in warfare with another nation. The resolution is in favour of prohibiting private citizens of a neutral nations from supplying belligerents with arms, except under particular circumstances permitted by Acts of Congress. The penalty for a violation of this, it is proposed, should be a fine of £2,000, or two years’ Imprisonment. The chairman of the committee. Mr. S. G. Porter, said: “It is my hope that if Congress expresses itself in favour of this resolution, similar action will be taken in Britain, Japan, France and other countries which manufacture munitions on a large scale.” —A. and N.Z.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 267, 1 February 1928, Page 1
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