DIVISION OPPOSED

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20066, 12 October 1939, Page 7

DIVISION OPPOSED

PROVISIONS IN MEASURE SENATE REJECTION * OPINION OF HOOVER (Elec. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) (Reed. Oct. 11, 2.30. p.m.) WASHINGTON, Oct. 10. The Senate, by 65 votes to 26 defeated a proposal by Senator W. Tobey to resubmit the bill to the Foreign Relations Committee to enable the separation of the repeal of the arms embargo feature from the cash and carry proposal, and the immediate enactment of the latter. Neither the opponents or proponents of the motion, however, considered this is a test of the sentiment of the bill itself. A former President, Mr. Herbert Hoover, in a statement on the Neutrality Bill, -said he favoured the free sale of pursuit and light observation planes, anti-aircraft guns and other instruments of defence against attack on civilians. He proposed there should be a prohibition on the sale ol' bombing planes, poison gas and submarines. He stressed that these proposals offered a genuine alternative to repeal or retention of the embargo provision. “The proposal largely meets with the distrust that the repeal of the embargo is but another step in the programme of United States joining in this war,” sa'id 'Mr. Hoover. “We would not be throwing the weight of our arms manufacture into European Power politics; we would be throwing it for greater humanity in the world and a less destructive war.”