U.S.A. NEUTRALITY
Not to Operate TOWARDS FINLAND AND CHINA. (Received February 14, 12.49 a.m.) NEW YORK, February 13. The Associated United Press Washington correspondent learns that the Secretary of State, Mr Hull, has informed the Senate Foreign Committee that he opposes the invocation of the Neutrality Act in relation to the Russo-Finnish and the Sino-Japanese wars. Mr Hull wrote to Senator Pittman saying: “Invocation of the Act in these cases, does not accord with the State Department’s programme.” He pointed out that the United States was not endangered by those wars. He added that he . believed the State Department would be able to prevent the involvement of the United States in the European war. ,
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Grey River Argus, 14 February 1940, Page 7
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