“TRUE NEUTRALITY”

Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 February 1939, Page 5

“TRUE NEUTRALITY”

VIEW OF REPUBLICAN SENATORS SALE OF WAR MATERIALS. ON EQUAL TERMS TO ALL NATIONS. WASHINGTON, February 2. Five Republican members of the Senate Military Affairs Committee held a caucus today, after which they announced that they had agreed on a common course for future meetings of that body in reference to national defencepolicy. Their decisions are:— (1) Priority for the United States of America on all new devices and aeroplanes. (2) No standing army or military establishments intended for service overseas or capable of inducing an aggressive attitude by the United States Government. (3) Freedom of trade under the spirit of true neutrality. This is to include traffic in aeroplanes, with all nations receiving exactly equal treatment. (4) Legislation requiring all aero-plane-companies to put into their contracts with foreign buyers clauses under which they could be cancelled if their fulfilment appeared to be injurious to the United States of America. (5) Payment in cash for all planes bought in the United States of America. Some indication of the part which the United States of America is playing in equipping foreign nations for war is seen in the Commerce Department’s 1938 export figures for scrap metals and aeronautical products. Scrap material was valued at 45,891,000 dollars, Japan taking approximately one-third of this amount, with Britain and Italy next and Germany fourth. Aeronautics totalled 68,000,000 dollars. The Netherlands, Japan and China were the greatest purchasers, the amounts being respectively 1,774,000 dollars, 11,062,000 dollars and 391.000. NAZI TIRADE PAPERS CALL PRESIDENT NAMES. (Received This Day. 10.40 a.mJ BERLIN, February 2. The newspapers, apparently reflecting instructions from higher up. are hurling a new wave of accusations at President Roosevelt, calling him peace disturber, sabre rattler, warmonger, and trail blazer for Jewish Bolshevism.