NEUTRALITY ACT
CONFERENCE OF LEADERS IN U.S.A. MR LANDON RETICENT. PROPOSALS AND AMENDMENTS By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright. (Received This Day, 9.15 a.m.) WASHINGTON, September 20. Mr A. M. Landon, arriving to confer with President Roosevelt, expressed the opinion that Congress should be in session continuously during the war in Europe, because: “The country has more confidence in legislative judgment than in that of any single man.” He declined to comment on the repeal of the Neutrality Act, but his associates said he favoured scrapping all limitations on the cash and carry sale of arms. Mr Langdon said: “The definite conviction in my part of the country is that we will not get into the war.” He said there was a strong Mid-West sentiment for cash and carry exports to belligerents, but declined to express an opinion whether arms should be included. Senator Nye said the amendments which the Isolationists intend to offer to any proposal for. the repeal of the arms embargo included a 20 to 25 per cent surcharge on every purchase of arms by a war debtor, the proceeds being applied to interest on the arrears of British and French debts
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 September 1939, Page 9
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193NEUTRALITY ACT Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 September 1939, Page 9
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