KEEN CONTEST

Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 March 1943, Page 3

KEEN CONTEST

EXPECTED IN AMERICAN SENATE ON ISSUE OF POST-WAR : COLLABORATION. — ANTI-ISOLATIONISTS CONFIDENT. (By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright) WASHINGTON, March 15. Many observers believe the circumstances surrounding the resolution to be submitted to the Senate tomorrow, committing Congress to international collaboration after the war, will make it the most important development in American foreign relations since Pearl Harbour, says Glen Perry, writing in the “New York Sun.” It is certain that the Senate resolution will precipitate a pitched battle. The “internationalists” do not mind this prospect, believing that any resolution acceptable to the diehard isolationist leaders would be too anaemic to be of any practicable value, adds Mr Perry. Any resolution will require a two-thirds majority to achieve its objective, and failure in that would be a major defeat for the “internationalists.” However, the sponsors of the resolution in the Senate are confident that events have convinced the vast majority of the American people that it is no longer possible to stand aloof. Mr Perry says the major Allies are reported to be formulating two distinct post-war plans, one for use if the United States remains in the game, Hhe other if America “jumps into the bomb-shelter and locks the door.” It is to enable the Allies to throw away the alternative plans and concentrate on a scheme in which all the major Powers have joined that the sponsors of the Senate resolution are acting. Senator Lister H. Hill (Alabama), spokesman for the senators who submitted their resolution to President Roosevelt yesterday, said that they had reached agreement on their broad objectives. Mr Roosevelt is reported to have told the senators that some features of the resolution should oe omitted. For example, Mr Roosevelt feels it would be unwise to hold a United Nations conference at present as the “Big Four” are doing the bulk of the fighting. In addition, a conference of all 30 members of the United Nations would not lend itself to efficient military planning.