SHIPPING TRADE
AMERICAN NEUTRALITY POLICY LIKELY TO BE MODIFIED IN PACIFIC. SENATOR KING CONFERS WITH PRESIDENT. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received This Day, 10.40 a.m.) WASHINGTON, October 11. Senator King, following upon a conference with President Roosevelt, predicted that the provisions of the Neutrality Bill restricting shipping, particularly on the west coast, would be modified. He said: “1 do not want to destroy our merchant marine. We are making sacrifices enough for our neutral rights.” He insisted that the Pacific was outside the sphere of belligerent activities aqd that there was little or no reason why United States trade should not continue with Australia and New Zealand. He also expressed a fear that United States shipping would be unable to use the Suez Canal under the measure.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 October 1939, Page 9
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126SHIPPING TRADE Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 October 1939, Page 9
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