AID TO BRITAIN BILL
FURTHER AMENDMENT PROPOSED LIMIT TO SUM TO BE SPENT WASHINGTON, February 5. The British Ambassador to the United States (Lord Halifax) and the United States Secretary of State (Mr Cordell Hull) conferred for an hour at Washington to-day. The conference was described as a general discussion. After a meeting of Democratic members of the House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee, the Speaker in the House of Representatives (Mr Sam Rayburn) announced that he was seriously considering a further amendment to the Aid to Britain Bill, giving particular attention to proposals to place a ceiling on the amount of money which the President is able to spend under the programme and to limit the time of contractual commitments.
Mr Rayburn also announced that he was considering writing in a clause stating that the measure neither authorises nor repeals any existing ban on the use of American ships to carry supplies to Britain. At the request of Senator A. H. Vandenberg, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee decided to ask the State Department whether Britain has made definite commitments to the United States on the use of the British Fleet in return for American aid.
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Press, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23248, 7 February 1941, Page 9
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