U.S. SAFEGUARD

Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 22 August 1935, Page 5

U.S. SAFEGUARD

NEUTRALITY IN WAR Senate Resolution Provides Wide Powers for President NO ARMS FOR BELLIGERENTS A MANDATORY EMBARGO (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph Copyright). Received 11.30 a.m. to-day. WASHINGTON. Aug. 21. A resolution designed to safeguard the United States’ neutrality in the event of a foreign war was adopted by the Senate and now goes to the House for action. It includes t Authority for the President to prohibit United States citizens from travelling in ships of belligerent nations, except at their own risk. Authority for the President to prevent ships of foreign or American lines from carrying men or supplies to bolligerent vessels at sea.

A mandatory embargo on the export of arms, munitions and implements of war to all belligerents in a foreign conflict. A system of licensing munitions manufacture and export as a permanent policy of the Government along the lines of the Geneva Arms Treaty of 1925, ratified earlier in the session by the Senate. The measure also provides for a ban against American ships carrying arms o? munitions under the embargo to any belligerent port or neutral port for , reshipment to belligerents, and authority for the President to restrict or prohibit the entry of belligerent submarines into' American waters or ports.