SENATE APPROVES

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23748, 30 August 1940, Page 9

SENATE APPROVES

CONSCRIPTION BILL I AGGRESSION DENOUNCED WARNING BY MR. HULL (Received August 29, 5.5. p.m.) WASHINGTON, Angust US The United States Senate "has passed the Conscription Bill. It will now go to the House of Representatives. ' - , The bill seeks to provide for a year's compulsory service for men between the ages of 21 and 31. It is expected that under the proposals 12,000,000 men would "register," and j that from this . number 4,500,000 would be available for selection by draft. Amendment Rejected • The first test vote on the bill occurred when the Senate, by 54 votes to 29, rejected an amendment by Sena-, tor Walsh to postpone the draft of the bill until Congress had declared war or V the country was threatened with invasion. The Senate amended the bill to permit the Government to commandeer private plants which refused to co- |?gj operate in the national defence pro- Mi gramme. President Roosevelt has legislative documents authorising to call out 396,000 members of the National Guard and Army Reserve for a j'ear's active duty. Marking the 12th anniversary of the signing of the Kellogg-Briand Pact, the Secretary of State, Mr. Cordell Hull, made a statement denouncing aggression and issuing a warning that no nation can hope to remain. at peace except by vigorous preparation for selfdefence. . - , ' No Country Secure "It was to spare the human race from the untold suffering and tragedy' we are.witnessing to-day that the pact was signed," said Mr. Hull. "To-day - no country and no individual is secure. No human being anywhere can be sure that ho will be allowed to live .in peace." ' After referring to the violations of the pact, he commented that the soundness of its underlying principles had not been impaired by what had pened. Soone? or later they must prevail as the unshakeable foundation of international relations —unless war, • with its horrors and ravages, was to become the normal state of the world and mankind was to relapse into chads and barbarism. .. ■ POLICE COMMISSION , r. f ; ■ INTERIMATI ONtf! L BO D Y.NAZI CHIEF'S POSITION (Received August 20, 7.10 p.m.) LONDON, August 23 The Berlin radio stated that the chief of the S.S. police, Heir Heidrich, has been appointed president 'of the International Commission of Criminal Police, with which 33 countries, including Britain, are still -nominally connected. .- 'v v '■'[ V- y .v>; ; i