A SHARP REBUKE.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 55, Issue 170, 2 May 1935, Page 5

A SHARP REBUKE.

NO VIOLATION OF BORDER. UNITED STATES AND CANADA. (United Press Association—Copyright). WASHINGTON, April 30. President Roosevelt took what is believed to be unprecedented action today by invoking his power as Com-mander-in-Chief of the Army to rebuke the chairman of the Military Affairs Committee-of the House of Representatives' for publishing evidence given by Brigadier-General Charles -Kil l bourne, until recently Assistant Chief pf the neutrality of nearby territory.:'in the, event of nar emergency. '~. ~;.' ; . ~ In evidence before the committee General Kilbourne declared that it might be necessary to seize British and French islands in the Atlantic to prevent an enemy utilising them as air The President flatly repudiated such intentions, but apparently the part of General Kjlbourne's testimony which was found most annoying was a reference to a "camouflaged" section ot the Airbase Bill, which is under consideration, which would provide tor building a military aviation base near the Canadian border under the guise of an "intermediate station for trans' continental flights." President Roosevelt's letter to the chairman of the committee (Mr John J McSwain) declared that hereafter such evidence must either be kept eecret or be presented to the President for his approval before being published. "I desire to inform the committee, the President wrote, "that I am certain that portions of the evidence given by General Kilbourne, especially those relating to the Canadian border, did not represent the policy of the Acministration or of the Commander-in Chief nor do they reflect the views, purposes or motives of the United States Government. This Government, does not envisage any possibility o a change in the friendly relations be tween the United States and any foreign country. This Government accepts as an accomplished fact the peace conditions cemented between the Canadian and American peoples, and expects permanently to live up, in letter as well as in spirit, to the treaties relating to permanent disarmament on the boundary."