EXPORTATION OF ARMS.
SCHEME FOR PROHIBITION. PROPOSAL IN AMERICA. (Received January 31, 7.5 p.m.) A. and N.Z. - WASHINGTON. Jan. SO. The Foreign Affairs Committee of the House of Representatives fo-day unanimously reported to the House in favour t f a resolution moved by Mr. T. E. Burton, a member of the committee, ana advocating the prohibition of the expoitation of arms, munitions, or implements of war, to any nation engaged in -warfare with another nation. The resolution is in favour of prohibiting private citizens of a neutral nation from supplying belligerents with arms, except under particular circumstances permitted by Acts of Congress. The penalty for a violation of this, it is proposed, should be a fine of £2OOO, or two years' imprisonment. The chairman of the committee, Mr. S. G. Porter, said: "It is my hope that if Congress expresses itself in favour of this resolution, similar action will be taken in Britain, Japan, France and other countries which manufacture munitions on a large scale." Mr. T. E. Burton was the chairman of the United States delegation to the conference on the Control of Traffic in Arms, at Geneva, in .1925.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19859, 1 February 1928, Page 11
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