WAY CLEARED

Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 11, 14 January 1941, Page 7

WAY CLEARED

AID TO BRITAIN BILL

SPEED IN CONGRESS

MR. HULL TO BE HEARD

LONDON, January 13. The House of Representatives, at Washington, has voted that the Aid to Britain (Lease and Lend) Bill should go before the Foreign Affairs Committee tomorrow. A vote in the House today cleared the way for the Bill. The Speaker moved that the Bill should go before the committee tomorrow, the first step in rushing it through Congress. The House voted verbally its approval, and an effort by the Military Affairs Committee to bring the Bill under its control was defeated. This means that the Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee will hear evidence tomorrow. The first witness will be Mr. Cordell Hull, Secretary of State. The Speaker (Mr. S. Rayburn) declared that he would not oppose a; time limit on the powers given the President provided the limit lasted as long as the emergency.

The Bill, which expedites all possible

help for the Allies, is described by the "New York Times" today as an "all-out measure in every sense of the phrase except a formal declaration of war against dictator Powers."

REVISED FORM

(Received January 14, 1 p.m.) WASHINGTON, January 13. Mr. Kenneth Simpson has introduced a revised form of the Aid to Britain Bill, limiting President. Roosevelt's authority to two years and restricting loans to the British Empire and Eire.

KING SEES MR. HOPKINS

IBritish Official Wireless.) (Received January 14, 1.10 p.m.) RUGBY, January 13. The King today received Mr. Harry Hopkins, President Roosevelt's personal representative in London.