MODIFIED PLANS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 October 1939, Page 4

MODIFIED PLANS

PROTECTION OF AMERICAN SHIPPING APPROVAL ANTICIPATED. ANTI-BRITISH OUTBURST IN SENATE. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. WASHINGTON. October 16. The Foreign Relations Committee of the Senate is likely to approve tomorrow amendments to the Neutrality Bill exempting shipping from the neutrality restrictions, except in the Atlantic adjacent to Europe and in the Mediterranean and the Black Sea, and giving the President power to close sections becoming danger zones. The amendments enable the maintenance of the transatlantic clipper service and do not impair ocean traffic with Canada, Australia and New Zealand or restrict the types of cargoes, thus permitting the carriage of war materials to British and French outposts and the Dominions. This meets the demands of most shippers and represents a large Administration compromise in granting the President discretion. The Senate debate on the Bill, at which the attendances twice fell below the quorum, was marked by Senator D. Worth Clark’s (Democrat) strong anti-British outburst. He declared that the British Empire had been built on blood and treachery and that British honour was worth no more than Hitler’s. Britain’s most outstanding example of aggression was the AngloFrench aggression, because of the refusal to consider Hitler’s .peace offer. Therefore they did not deserve American assistance. Senator H. Styles Bridges (Republican) proposed an amendment in the form of a preamble expressing the United States’ determination to stay out of the war.