WHITE HOUSE BUSTLE

Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 56, 4 September 1939, Page 8

WHITE HOUSE BUSTLE

REACTION IN UIS.A^

NO HASTY MEASURES

THE AIM NEUTRALITY

GERMANY'S GUILT RECOGNISED

(By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright.) (Received September 4, 9 a.m.) WASHINGTON, September 3. There was unusual bustle and activity at the White House and the State Department following Britain's declaration of war, but there is no evidence that immediate steps will be taken either to invoke the arms embargo or to call Congress together. As tomorrow is a holiday, officials have a comparatively lengthy period to ponder their moves. It is understood that President Roosevelt and Mr. Cordell Hull, Secretary of State, listened to Mr. Chamberlain by radio. It is considered certain, however, that Mr. Roosevelt will summon Congress to repeal the Neutrality Act. Thus his broadcast tonight is awaited with unusual interest. The Washington correspondent of the New York "Daily News" says that Mr. Roosevelt's speech will probably contain a blunt declaration that while the United States does not wish to send troops to Europe, still American democratic sympathy cannot but manifest itself towards the non-aggressor nations'. . , HITLER DECLARED DOOMED. Senator Pittman, chairman. of the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee, declared that Herr Hitler had not only written his physical death but his, political demise. "He will probably destroy the Polish people, but he will never win," he said. The German American League for Culture is distributing thousands of circulars denouncing Herr Hitler and declaring: "History will show that Hitler is not Germany." Despite Herr Hitler's reply to President ' Roosevelt asserting that the Fuhrer did everything in his power to produce a peaceful settlement, Americans generally are convinced that Germany, not Poland, was the aggressor. Furthermore, the issues are growing steadily clearer here.- An increasing number of Americans now realise that the stakes involved in Europe will ultimately reach out to the United States. v * BOOM IN WAR COMMODITIES. The European situation brought a sharp market reaction. The New York Stock Exchange list experienced its widest decline since January early yesterday, but a rush to buy- "war babies" in the last hour sent those issues soaring and caused the ticker to fall a minute behind the boom in prime war commodities. Sugar, wheat, and copper were enlivened and trading in wheat and sugar rose to the limit of the fluctuation permitted. Shares in the steel, copper, chemical, and aviation industries climbed by from one to seven points. ! At Winnipeg wheat futures jumped i five cents, the allowable limit in the. first. movements of trading, arid remained at that level throughout the day. 5 , ■ Sterling dropped sharply, closing at 4.26 dollars Ho the pound, compared with Thursday's rate of 4.34 dollars. SHIPPING SEEKING REFUGE. The paralysis of war has struck New York Harbour. Only two ships left for Europe, when usually .ten or more leave daily, and these carried only 14 passengers." The French liner Normandie and the Roma (Italy) remained in the docks. The Bremen (Germany), which is somewhere at sea, reported that she is, following a zig-zag course to a neutral] South American port. Wild rumours persisted throughout the day that she had been captured by British cruisers which had been dogging her course, but the British Admiralty officially denied the report. Another German liner, the Columbus, unloaded passengers bound for New York at Havana and sailed for Germany. ■ . _' Liners from Europe continued to unload thousands of refugee Americans from Europe, a Dutch liner landing 1286. Every inch of available space is cr-owded: . . The former President Mr. Herbert Hoover made a statement that American sympathies are\ with the democracies, but "America must keep out f of wk" ' ■ • •