BUILDING FOREIGN TRADE

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 353, 6 February 1937, Page 6

BUILDING FOREIGN TRADE

U.S.A. POLICY.

OPPOSITE DIRECTIONS.

Conflict Of Ideas Does Not Help Economic Relations.

Press Association—Copyright. Washington, Feb. 4

Mr. Bernard S. Baruch, appearing before the House of Representatives Military Affairs Committee at neutrality resolutions hearings to-day, said the United States Was trying to travel in opposite directions at the tame time by endeavouring to build foreign, trade through reciprocal agreement sand simultoneously voting strict neutrality. This conflict of ideas, he said, must make certain countries hesitate to establish economic relations with the United States when; they might be deprived of vital supplies in time of war. He advocated strong armed neutraliay. “Who can believe that, had we been ready to fight in 1917, we should have been subjected to the English interference and CTerman insolence that finally made us fight?” he asked

He issued a w.-irtfng that the cutting off of S'upg'ies of raw materials from belligerents would result in retaliation, depriving the United Stales of es’.r products as tin, nickel and rxhber.

Mr. Key Pittman, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations committee, in a statement sard: "Reports that Mr. Walter Runciman when at Washington received assurances- that there would be no interference with shipments to Britain in the event of Britain’s ibeing involved in war are. in my opinion, entirely without foundation. Such an attitude would be inconsistent with the Administration’s l policy of non-interference in the affairs of other nations.”