CRITICAL STAGE

Grey River Argus, 26 September 1941, Page 5

CRITICAL STAGE

U.S.A. & JAPAN Negotiations Near Breakdown IRec. 9.50). NEW YORK, Sept. 24. The “Herald-Tribune’s” Washington correspondent says tnat the American-Japanese negotiations for a settlement of Pacific problems have reached a critical stage. President Roosevelt is now exerting efforts to avoid a breakdown The chief obstacle. it" says, is reported to be Japan’s unwillingness to givv a pledge that she will not attack Eastern Siberia. JEWISH ISSUE IN U.S.A. .Rec. 7.0.) CHICAGO. Sept. 24. The America First Committee, whose policy is isolationist have issued a statement denying that Colonel Lindbergh is hostile to the Jews. The Committee said that the interventionists had injected the race issue into the war debate. ■Rec. 9.50.) WASHINGTON, Sept. 24. The cnairman of the Senate Foreign Committee, Senator Tom Connally, announced that he was ready to sponsor the amendment of the Neutrality Act without any formal : equest froyn the President. He said that the Neutrality Act “was based on an illusion that the Nazis would not sink American ships if they stayed outside of the combat zones.” The New Yorx “Herald-Tribune” says: In the Senate the isolationists admit that they could probably muster oniv from thirty-live to forty votes for opposing the repeal of the Neutrality Act. The British Embassy announced that the Duke of Windsor was conferring with Messrs Hull, Stimson, Forrestal and Admiral Land during a thirty-hour stay in Washington. White House announced that Presid ent and Mrs Roosevelt have postponed a luncheon for the Duke and Duchess of Windsor to have been given to-morrow, because of the illness of Mrs Roosevelt’s brother, it is understood the luncheon will nelc wnen the Duke and Duchess of Windsor are returning from Canada.