AMERICAN CONCERN
SAFETY OF NATIONALS
NO HASTY ACTION
WASHINGTON, August 14.
The leaders of the Government refuse to be stampeded into hasty action concerning China and Japan, despite demands from a section led by Senator Nye for the invocation of the Neutrality Act.
The Secretary of State, Mr. Cordell Hull, announced that the United States urged China and Japan not to make Shanghai a base for military operations, and added: 'The navy is ready to protect and evacuate nationals."
Meanwhile President Roosevelt, who is spending the weekend on his yacht in the Potomac River, is hourly in touch with developments. This strengthens the belief that the invocation of the Neutrality Act is not an entirely remote possibility.
Most newspaper are not commenting, but the New York journal "The American" appears to sum up tha weight of public opinion thus: "America's concern is the protection of her people. The Sino-Japanese war is not our war."
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 40, 16 August 1937, Page 9
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