PRESIDENT'S CASE

Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 4, 5 July 1939, Page 11

PRESIDENT'S CASE

U.S. NEUTRALITY ISSUE

THE MODIFIED EMBARGO

WELCOMED BY SOME

(By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright.)

(Received July 5, 1 p.m.) HYDE PARK, July 4. Sitting in his shirt sleeves on the lawn, where a Fourth of July picnic had been given to eighty guests, President Roolsevelt held a Press conference to indicate further his position on the neutrality question just before interrupting his holiday and departing by special train for Washington in an effort to secure the elimination of the embargo provision from the Bloom Bill.

- The President asserted that Press dispatches from the four major capitals stating that the action of die House in adopting the modified embargo had been welcomed in the Fascist and Nazi nations were substantiated by reports received by the State Department. Mr. Roosevelt expressed the belief that the House's action had nad an unfavourable effect on the current European crisis. It might bring war closer and would make it more difficult for.the United States to remain unernbroiled.

He wanted a measure, he added, that would be more likely to have a restraining effect . upon nations which were considering war since the first policy of his Administration is to prevent any war in any parl; of the world.

WARNING BY ME. HULL. The Washington correspondent of the "New York Times" states that th« Secretary of State, Mr. Cordell Hull, issued a warning that some members of Congress will have to explain why they want to go home and hang their hats in the shade while the world is in such a dangerous condition.

He indicated that the Administration might start an "educational campaign* to arouse public opinion on the necessity of abolishing the arms embargo. Mr. Herbert Hoover, writing in a magazine published today, demanded a formal declaration by the Govern* ment that the United States will not go to war with a European nation unless the Western Hemisphere is attacked. He considers that neutrality legislation is not important unless the United States, has the will to remain out of war.

Mr. Hoover criticised President Roosevelt's "more than words" method* against aggressor- nations as drawing the nation into Power politics.