EMBARGO ON ARMS
UNITED STATES SENATE COMMITTEE'S ATTITUDE (Received May 28, G.3S p.m.) WASHINGTON, May 27 Isolationists in the Senato won an important victory against Mr lloosevclt's foreign policy to-day when the Government's partisans on the foreign Relations Committee were forced to agree to a compromise Arms Embargo Bill Under this the President would be civen power to declare an embargo only against both belligerents in case of 'international hostilities. According to Mr. H. W. Johnson (Republican-California), who insisted upoA limiting the President's power, the adoption of the amendment retains the status of neutrality of this n 'ln the opinion of many members of the Senate, Mr. Norman Davis statement at Geneva of America abandoning neutrality is qualified, it not nullified.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21503, 29 May 1933, Page 9
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121EMBARGO ON ARMS New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21503, 29 May 1933, Page 9
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