EMBARGO ON ARMS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 May 1938, Page 7

EMBARGO ON ARMS

AMERICA AND THE NVE RESOLUTION SUPPORT BY ADMINISTRATION NOT CONFIRMED INCONSISTENT WITH RULING POLICY By Telegraph—Press Association. Copyright. NEW YORK, May 6. The State Department, says the Washington correspondent of the New York “Herald-Tribune,” does not confirm the report that the Administration ha£ decided to support Senator Nye’s resolution for the lifting of the arms embargo against Spain. Such a course would be inconsistent with the department’s policy hitherto, and would embarrass the Government in pursuit of its objective of holding strictly aloof from entanglement in European conflicts. The Nye resolution would not simply lift the arms embargo, but would permit sales to the Government and disallow them to General Franco. A message yesterday stated: The Washington correspondent of the “New York Times” says the Administration has decided to support a resolution by Senator Nye for the lifting of the arms embargo against Spain, which would spell the virtual end of the neutrality venture. SURPRISE IN LONDON “ANOTHER STONE IN TROUBLED / WATERS” LONDON, May 6. The Government is awaiting an authoritative statement from Washington about Senator Nye’s reported proposal that the United States embargo on war supplies to Spain should be lifted, says :“The Times’s” dilpomatic correspondent. The writer adds that the news has caused surprise. It seems late in the day for the proposal to be put forward, and the reasons for it are hardly clear in London, although one effect would be immediately clear, namely, one more stone would be thrown into the troubled waters of non-intervention. LOYALIST PLEDGE PLEBISCITE AFTER THE WAR WASHINGTON, May 6. The Barcelona (Loyalist) Government has sent a Note to the United States promising a plebiscite after the war, in which people will express their will regarding the nation’s social structure, and pledging political amnesty to those Spaniards co-operating in reconstruction.