NOVEL PROJECT

Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 April 1938, Page 7

NOVEL PROJECT

DEALING WITH AGGRESSOR NATIONS PROPOSAL BY AMERICAN CONGRESSMAN. UNOFFICIAL AND OFFICIAL BOYCOTTS. By Telegraph.—Press Association, Copyright. NEW YORK, April 18. A rather unusual plan to make effective President Roosevelt’s “quarantine” concepts is seen in a resolution introduced by Representative Byron N. Scott, says the Washington correspondent of the “New York Times.” Under the resolution the present Neutrality Law of the United States would be replaced by an unofficial boycott of the so-called aggressor nations. The President would be required to inform the House what nations have in recent years violated treaties such as the Kellogg, Briand and NinePower Pacts.

It is expected that President Roosevelt will reply naming Germany, Italy and Japan and then Representative Scott will introduce a joint resolution deprecating aggression and advocating a popular boycott and requesting the President to call a convention of signatories to the treaties mentioned, at which the establishment of an official international boycott will be advocated.

President Roosevelt in an address at Chicago in October last year likened world lawlessness to an epidemic disease and suggested the “quarantine” of offending nations to prevent its spread. He proposed a concerted effort by peace-loving peoples to maintain justice throughout the world.