LIMITING DEBATE

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23487, 26 October 1939, Page 11

LIMITING DEBATE

ISOLATIONISTS AGREE AMERICAN NEUTRALITY LAW ARMS EMBARGO QUESTION (Received October 25, 9.80 p.m.) WASHINGTON, Oct. 24 The isolationists have agreed to limit the debate in the Senate, thus assuring a vote on the proposed amendment of the Neutrality Act by the end of this week. It is expected that the House of Representatives will begin its debate on the issue on Monday. The Vice-President, Mr. John Garner, presiding in the Senate, hurried business along to-day at a speed which brought protests from the floor and caused an irritat-ed exchange with one member. Mr. Garner replied to the protests: "I am not trying to railroad anything, but I will not have any horse and buggy business in the Senate while I am running it." Shipping Restrictions The Senate has incorporated in the proposals the shipping amendment which seeks to exempt from the limitations of the Act ports on the Tasman Sea and ports reached through th« Gulf of Maine, the Bay of Fundy, the Pacific and Indian Oceans., and the China and Arabian Seas. Ordinary goods shipped on American vessels would b9 exempted from transfer of title in the United States. Another amendment would require private purchasers in belligerent countries also to pay cash. The Senate rejected an amendment moved by Mr. Robert A. Taft (Republican—Ohio), to prevent American ships from going 300 miles of Europe. Mr. Herbert Hoover, former President, in a lengthy article in the Saturday Evening Post, reiterated his stand that the United States must keep out of war. "We cannot solve the problems or keep the peace in Europe," he stated. Five Steps Suggested Self-determination by many peoples was impossible because of boundaries or economic life. America could not, by words of contract, substitute processes of justice lor hate and fear. "We can make war in Europe but we cannot make an enduring peace," he asserted. Mr. Hoover advocated that the United States should take five steps, namely, to puts its own house in order; strengthen its defences; aid Europe with her counsel; assist in healing Europe's war wounds; and assure liberalism in North America. The airwoman Laura Ingalls, who recently flew in the neighbourhood of White House dropping pamphlets urging Congrpss to remain in session throughout the war, and not to take any hasty action in repealing the arms embargo, was ordered by* tho Civil Aeronautics Authority to show cause why her licence should not be revoked. The examiner has found her guilty and recommended the authority to limit her punishment to a reprimand.

PRISONERS OF WAR NO EXCHANGE AT PRESENT (Received October 25, 5.5 p.m.) British Wireless LONDON, Oct. 2-1 One hundred and ten German sailors and airmen are interned as prisoners of war in Britain, it was stated in the House of Lords to-day. As there is only an insignificant number of British airmen prisoners in Germany, no question of an exchange of prisoners so far arises. Men who had been interned as enemy aliens, it was stated in the House of Commons, were detained in internment camps and not in prison, except some who were lodged in prison for a few days, when arrangements were unable to be made to take them direct to camp.

FRENCH TRAITORS ONE TO BE EXECUTED (Received October 25, 0.2~> p.m.) PARIS, Oct. 24 A railwayman, Louis Nade, aged 50, has been sentenced to death for communicating military secrets to the enemy. A military court has sentenced three spies to terms varying from nine years to imprisonment for life. FLIGHTS OYER GERMANY LONDON. Oct. '25 The Royal Air Force has again made flights over Germany, including Berlin. Reconnaissance flights have been carried out in the past 24 hours.