WAR SUPPLIERS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 August 1939, Page 5

WAR SUPPLIERS

POSITION IN UNITED STATES PROSPECTS OF REVOKING NEUTRALITY ACT. REPORTED ASSURANCES TO PRESIDENT. NEW YORK, August 28. Tlic Washington correspondent of (he “New York Daily News” learns that many Republicans and Conservative Democrats who are opposed to President Roosevelt’s foreign policy have given the Administration assurances that they will not oppose the revoking’ of the Neutrality Act. in the event of a European war. If this is true it means that Britain and France need no longer worry regarding the present unfilled and future orders for American engines and aircraft, since President Roosevelt has already announced that he intends to summon a special session of Congress immediately in the event of war. A Washington message reports that the Secretary of State, Mr Cordell Hull, at a Press conference, deprecated reports that the Government had had preliminary consultations with other governments before dispatching pleas to Italy and Herr Hitler. He insisted that an interchange of information occurred only on the steps taken. Mr Hull denied that the United States had asked Latin-American countries to appeal to the European leaders to maintain peace, though he intimated that the United States highly approved such a step. He disclosed that the President of Ecuador had sent a message to Mr Roosevelt commending the latter’s peace appeal, EIGHTEEN RILLED EXPLOSION IN POLISH STATION. (Received This Day. 9 a.m.) WARSAW. August 29. It is revealed that 18 persons were killed and 39 injured by an explosion at the railway station of Tarnow, near Cracow.