WANTS U.S. NEUTRALITY LAW AMENDED
NEW YORK, November 25
The Washington correspondent of the “New York Times” states that Senator H. C. Lodge (Republican), announces that shortly he proposes to move tarreaching amendments to the Neutrality Act.
His reason is that the present law “tends to lead the country into war.”
Mr Lodge said: “I want a statute which will have no purpose except that of saving the United States from being involved in foreign conflicts."
The principal objectives of Mr Lodge’s proposal are:— (1) The elimination of the vast discretion placed in the bands of the President, which virtually gives him the power of peace or war. (2) A reduction of the need of the United States to commit itself in advance of foreign wars, thus restoring freedom to act as the interests of peace dictate.
(3) The elimination of the“cash-and-carry” provision of the Act, which automatically ranges the United States on the side of the strongest belligerent regardless of right or wrong.
Three other proposed constitutional amendments are pending, each designed to remove from Congress the power to declare war on foreign soil.
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Northern Advocate, 27 November 1937, Page 5
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