AMERICAN NEUTRALITY

Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 24 August 1935, Page 5

AMERICAN NEUTRALITY

Roosevelt’s Approval is Said to be None Too Willing ONLY TEMPORARY MEASURE (Unittd Press Association—By Electric Telegraph Copyright.) WASHINGTON, Aug. 22. The mandatory neutrality legislation, which will be effective only until February 29, was pressed to-night towards action by the House of Representatives with President Roosevelt’s sanction. Sweeping beyond traditional American policies the temporary resolution would place a mandatory embargo on exports of arms to belligerents, license munitions manufacturers, authorise the President ■ft) keep Americans off the ships of belligerent nations except at tlieir own risk and provide other preventives.

The Foreign Affairs Committee of the House of Representatives, which rejecf6d the Senate’s Bill, approved unanimously the compromise measure, but except for the temporary clause and two* or three minor amendments the •compromise resolution contained virtually every restriction proposed by the Senate. The president’s approval is reported to be none too willing. He had emphatically disapproved the enactment of any mandatory permanent neutrality law before next session. The expiration of the legislation next February would throw the neutrality problem back in the lap of Congress when it is convened again. It was considered likely that additional steps, ineduding a ban on loans and credits fo belligerents, might be considered then. The loan ban was omitted from to-day’s compromise. _______