LIMITS URGED
IN LEND OR LEASE BILL
REPUBLICAN OPPOSITION. MAJORITY OF COMMITTEE FAVOUR MEASURE. 'By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) (Received This Day. 12.15 p.mJ WASHINGTON. January 22. The Senate Republican Leader. Senator McNary, announced that he would oppose the Lend and Lease Bill in its present form, because it grants total power to one man. He said he favoured all aid to Britain short of war. but would seek to insert time and financial limitations in the Bill during its passage through Congress. Mr Norman Thomas, giving evidence before the Foreign Affairs Committee opposed the Bill. He said he did not believe that the British Fleet was the United States' first line of defence, or that the survival of the British Empire was vital for United Slates security. He said he hoped to see a British victory. The latest --poll shows that fifteen of twenty-five members of the Committee favour the Bill.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 January 1941, Page 6
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151LIMITS URGED Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 January 1941, Page 6
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