NEUTRALITY ACT
PROPOSED REVISION CORDELL HULL’S VIEWS OPENING THE COMBAT ZONES WASHINGTON, (Rec. 11.30 p.m.) Oct. 13. The Secretary of State, Mr Cordell Hull, testifying in connection with the proposed revision of the Neutrality Act, told the House Foreign Affairs Committee that the theory of the legislation was that the United States could keep away from danger, but “ danger has come to us and our problem now is not avoidance but defence against the hostile movement seriously threatening the entire Western Hemisphere. The blunt truth is that the world is being steadily dragged downward and backward by the mightiest conquest movement ever attempted.” Mr Hull, Colonel Knox and Mr H. L. Stimson all urged revision not only to repeal the prohibition on the arming of merchantmen, but to open the combat zones to American ships, thus expediting delivery of lease-lend goods.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24738, 15 October 1941, Page 5
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