NO U.S. 'PLANES.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 209, 5 September 1939, Page 8

NO U.S. 'PLANES.

NEUTRALITY ACTBON.

Supplies For Belligerents To

Slop.

FEELING AMONG THE PEOPLE. United I're?s Association.—Copyright. (Iloci'ivcd ]J "<- ji.m.i WASHINGTON". September 4. President Koosevelt and his Cabinet decided to issue two neutrality proclamations to-morrow. xh c . a " required under international law and the second invoking 1 lie Neutrality Act, thus placing an f-mbarso oil arms shipments to belligerents and preventing delivery of ; p l anes onlered by Britain an<] France.

Mr. Roosevelt's secretary said tlie Cabinet did not di—u-s calling Congress to repeal tiie .Act.

A special reporter of I lie Associated Press after touring the traditionally isolationist Mid-West writes:— "A vast dread of war. yet an almo-t fatalistic acceptance of tiie idea that sooner or later America will in-nmic involved is plainly evident ill the farm belt.

"Bankers. politicians, s-t&re clerks and service station workers all expressed the same thought— "we do not want war. but we will probably be in there fighting before it is finished. Our sympathies lie natnrally with Britain and France. Jnst let London and Paris be bombed, beat a few drums, and a tremendous war sentiment can be •whipped up overnight." This was written before the torpedoing of the liner Athenia shocked America.

NEUTRALITY LAW.

President Will Proclaim Mandatory Embargoes. MR. ROOSEVELT'S ADDRESS. (Received 10.30 a.m.) LOXDOK. September 4. The United Press correspondent at Washington states authoritatively that the President will proclaim mandatory embargoes under the Neutrality Lair within 30 hours. 11l the course of a broadcast address last evening President Roosevelt said: "Until, early this morning I had hoped against hope that a miracle would prevent the devastating war which to-dav, unhappily, is a fact. It is. of course, impossible to predict the future. When peace is broken anywhere, the peace oi all countries is endangered. '"Let no man or woman thoughtlessly or falsely talk of sending American armies to foreign fields. There ii now being 1 prepared a proclamation of our neutrality. I trust that in the days to come our neutrality can be made true neutrality.

"This nation will remain a neutral nation, but I cannot ask that every America n stball remain neutral in thought as wjell. Even a neutral has the right to- take account of facts. Even a neutzal cannot be asked to close his mihcL or conscience.

"I have said many times that I have S seen war and that I hate war. I say that again anci again. I hope the K United States wSSI stay out of this war. p I believe it will. As long as it remains g in my power to prevent it, there trill p be no black-out ot peace in the United jp States. "I cannot propJiesy the immediate p economic effect of this new war on ; the United States, but I say that no g American has the n»oral right to be * H profiteer at the expense either of his i fellow citizens or of men. women and f children who are living and dying amid j| the war in Europe."