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DECISIVE VOTE IN U.S.A. SENATE REPEAL OF PRESENT LAW ASSURED. TREATMENT OF BELLIGERENT SHIPS. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received This Day, 11.15 a.m.) WASHINGTON, October 27. The Senate defeated by 67 votes to 22, Senator Nye’s substitute neutrality measure, which contained a mandatory arms embargo. This was tantamount to a vote for the repeal of the present embargo law. The Senate also defeated an amendment proposed by Senator Clarke prohibiting armed merchantment and belligerents’ submarines entering United States ports. Senators argued that il would be better to give the President discretion in that matter.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 October 1939, Page 8
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95ARMS EMBARGO Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 October 1939, Page 8
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