HELP FOR BRITAIN.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 61, Issue 40, 27 November 1940, Page 5

HELP FOR BRITAIN.

THE ATTITUDE OF AMERICA.

EARLY ACTION NOT LIKELY.

(Received This Day, 10.15 a.m.) WASHINGTON, November 20

The chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee (Mr George) after conferring with President Roosevelt, said that to-morrow his committee would take up two proposals relating to United States financial aid to Britain, but said there was little chance of action being taken during the present session.

Mr George said the committee would deal with Senator King’s resolution for repeal of the Johnson Act and of the ban on loans and credit to Britain contained in the Neutrality Act, also Senator Nye’s counter-proposal for a formal investigation into the extent of British financial resources in the United States.

Mr George declared that he was in general agreement with President Roosevelt and the State Department on international policy, but added that immediate legislative action financially to assist Britain was “impracticable and somewhat premature.” The British Ambassador (the Marquess of Lothian) denied tlie ptiblished reports that he submitted to the President a memorandum asking for battleships, cruisers and destroyers.