RECIPROCAL TREATIES
PROPOSED EXTENSION AMERICAN SENATE DEBATE WASHINGTON, March 25 In opening a debate in the Senate on reciprocal trade treaties, the chairman of the Finance Committee, Mr. P. Harrison (Democrat —-Mississippi) advocated a three-year extension of the programme —already agreed to by the House of Representatives —as a beacon light to belligerents and as givinjgjt lead in rational and unselfish principles of international trade. Tie speaker denounced as spurious the argument that belligerents'after the war would flood the United states with cheaply-made goods. The chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, Mr. Key Pittman, urged that the Act was constitutional only if it provided that agreements be ratified by two-thirds of the Senate. The Government argued that an amendment of that nature would nullify the bill. The Government is confident that the Senate by a small margin will approve a tliree-year extension.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23615, 27 March 1940, Page 9
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