CRUX IN CONGRESS
ROOSEVELT FOREIGN POLICY
REBUFF IN -SENATE
WASHINGTON, May 27. Senate "isolationists" won an important victory against President Roosevelt's foreign policy today, when Administration partisans on the Foreign Relations Committee were forced to agree to compromise on the Arms Embargo Bill, whereby the President would bo given power to declare an embargo only against both belligerents in the case of international hostilities. According to Senator Johnson, who insisted 'on limiting the President's power, the adoption of the amendment "retains the neutrality status of this nation. "In the opinion of many Senators, Mr. Norman Davis's pronouncement at Geneva of America abandoning neutrality is "qualified if not nullified."
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Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 124, 29 May 1933, Page 7
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108CRUX IN CONGRESS Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 124, 29 May 1933, Page 7
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