U.S. NEUTRALITY LAW

Press, Volume LXXV, Issue 22767, 20 July 1939, Page 11

U.S. NEUTRALITY LAW

Action by Congress Deferred MR ROOSEVELT’S DEFEAT Attitude of Senate Leaders (UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHT.) (Received July 20, 12.5 a.m.) WASHINGTON, July 19. All the neutrality legislation will be deferred until the next session of Congress, the White House announced late to-night, after a threehour conference between Mr Roosevelt and Senate Democrat and Republican leaders. As a result of the decision Congress is expected to adjourn on August 5, Mr Roosevelt conceding defeat in face of the conviction of the majority of his confreres that neutrality action during the present session is impossible. * A statement which was issued said: “The President and the Secretary of State maintained the definite position that the Senate’s failure to act now will weaken the leadership of the United States in exercising its potent influence in the cause of preserving peace among the nations in the event of a new crisis in Europe. - ’ During the conference Senator W. E. Borah (Republican) is reported to have clashed first with Mr Roosevelt regarding whether the Administration programme would actually avert war abroad, and then with Mr Hull on the, likelihood of war in Europe. , . Mr Borah expressed the opinion that there would not be war, while Mr Hull asserted that there was every likelihood of it.