AMERICA’S ISOLATION
CHANGE IN POLICY PRESIDENT SEEKS WIDER POWERS Press Association—By Telegraph —Copyright NEW YORK, December. 15. The Washington correspondent of the ‘ New York Times ’ has learned that the State Department has prepared, a series of recommendations for submission to President Roosevelt, which, if adopted, will greatly revise America’s historical neutrality policies. It .is understood that the President, desires wide powers of discretion in this matter, such as have been granted him in domestic issues by the Congress. Details of the department’s ideas are lacking, but it is understood that the paramount issue is freedom of the seas, with serious consideration given to the proposal that the traditional policy be abandoned to the extent of withdrawing protection from American shipping in, danger zones.
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Evening Star, Issue 21905, 17 December 1934, Page 11
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123AMERICA’S ISOLATION Evening Star, Issue 21905, 17 December 1934, Page 11
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