PRESIDENTS POWERS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 January 1941, Page 6

PRESIDENTS POWERS

UNDER AID TO BRITAIN BILL

MR. STIMSON OPPOSES RESTRICTION. . | I discussi6n of stronger BLOCKADE ji By Telegraph—Press .Association—Copyright • | (Received This Day. 12 10 pin.l WASHINGTON. January 29. The House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee approved an amendment to the Bri- : tish Aid Bill providing that the President's power under it shall expire on June 30. 1943. The committee is understood also to have agreed to amendments requiring President Roosevelt to report regularly to Congress on transactions under the Bill and to consult military and naval chiefs before transferring war materirals abroad. A proposal specifically to ban the ; use of United States warships to com i voy vessels to Europe is under ram I sideration, I Thy SecFetary for War 'Mr Stimson* i testifying before the Senate Fon-mni Relations Committee, urged that it would be most unfortunate Io restrict, 'President Roosevelt's authority by |ronibbing United States convoys The Secretary of Slate (Mr CordviH ihilli indicated that talks in proi*re«' with Britain may it ul’. in further! measure., deigned to 'trengihen Bn , lish economic warfare against the Axis. The conversations include the estab- ( lishment of blockade controls but nV lecisioirs have yet been reached.