AMERICAN POLICY

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 124, 29 May 1939, Page 9

AMERICAN POLICY

AVOID ENTERING WAR. Basis Of Legislation Set Out By Secretary Of State. NEUTRALITY DEFINED. United Press Association.—Copyright. WASHINGTON, May 28. Seven proposals for inclusion in any legislation designed to keep America out of Avar were urged by the Secretary of State, Mr. Cordell Hull, in letters to the chairmen of the Congressional Foreign Affairs Committee and Foreign Relations Committee. These were as follows:— (1) Abolition of the existing automatic arms embargo in the Neutrality Act, (2) Prohibition against American vessels entering combat areas. (3) Restriction of travel by Americans in such areas. (4) Transfer of title to foreign purchase of all exports to any belligerent.

(5) Prohibitions against loans or credits to belligerents.

(G) Control over the solicitation of funds for belligerents.

(7) Continuation of the Munitions Control Board for regulation of the arms traffic.

It was the first autTioiT-cd statement i>f Administration policy regarding ■lcutralitv.

FRENCH SINCERITY.

Not Playing Double Game With Other Nations. SPEECH AT U.S. MEMORIAL. (Received 11 a.m.) PARIS, May 28. M. Daladier, in a speech at the inauguration of the American Legion memorial at Neuilly. said that the French people never claimed to be a predestined race superior to others and capable of enslaving others. They wished only to collaborate with- others. France was not playing a double game. When she talks peace she devotes her efforts to it and hopes a world catastrophe will be avoided thereby. Mr. William Bullitt, United States Ambassador, said if arms break peace they will also defend it.