ANTI-BRITISH FEELING.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 161, 9 June 1939, Page 7

ANTI-BRITISH FEELING.

I.R.A. LEADER’S ARREST. WASHINGTON, June 7. The Foreign Relations Committee, which was discussing the American neutrality legislation, heard a member of the House of Representatives, Mr Tinkhani, who is notoriously antiBritish. He demanded to know whether the unprecedented visit of the King “does signify an entente or military understanding between our Administration and the British Government for the preservation of the British Empire at the expense of American blood and American treasure Mr McCrauery, member of the House of Representatives, who headed i congressional committee ol truce which to-flnv visited President Roosevelt protested against the arrest ol the reputed Irish Republican Army leader, Sean Russell, stating that the appointment of additional immigration officials was inexcusable Mi Roosevelt promised to take the mattei up with the State Department immediately. Mr McGranerv told the I ress that 70 members of the Houso may boycott Friday’s congressional reception to the King and Queen, due to Russell’s arrest.