AID TO BRITAIN

Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 January 1941, Page 6

AID TO BRITAIN

POSSIBLE MODIFICATIONS OF BILL ISOLATIONIST & OTHER CRITICISMS. SOME SUGGESTED LIMITS ON NEW POWERS. , i B;.' Telegraph—Press .-Association —Copyrigh-' WASHINGTON. January 11 Seiifiinoni appears io l>c developing to iiipmse limita- .; lions on the -\i<! to Britain i, j Bill. Sr-ni inieiii is crystalis--1; ing slowly, inn indications '•I point to the possibility ihiit '! those in favour of inoditiva- . j linn and the Bill's outright opponents together may have sll ffb'irllt votes to jiUI it! sOltie *1 , restrict ions. i i The most discussed limitations arc | first, a two-year limit to the Presi- ' dent's authority to provide materials I and repair ships for the democracies; ; secondly continuance of the law that I lhe army and navy chiefs must certify ; that present equipment is not essential ’j to the United States' defence before ’I its transfer: and. thirdly, a ban on outj right gifts of war materials under the j "indirect benefit clause." •; Senator George foreshadowed a l Senate amendment io require "reason- | able security" from Britain for arms ’ I and material. He said this did not : ! necessarily mean money. "If we could 'jhave some interest in British tin and ■ rubber production it would be good ■ i business for us." ho added. He said '[he favoured without qualification the i Bill's objectives. New England Republican loaders ' I expressed approval of the Bill's obI jcctivcs. but Senator Austin suggested | a time limitation on the great powers 1 given the President. Other isolationist criticism is as ! follows:— | Senator Bennett Clark: "It is simply! in Bill to authorise lhe President to declare war." Senator Ln Follette: "It is a P-ill fori Congress to abdicate." Senator Nye: "The Bill amounts to 1 a request to grant the President power I equal to a declaration of war." | Mr Hamilton Fish: "It looks as, (though wo tire bringing the dictator-! I ship of Nazism and Fascism io /America t i and setting up our own Fuehrer," i Mr Thomas Dewey claims that lhe i Bill gives the President an absolute I right to seize alien ships in the United! i Slates and transfer them to Britain. to[ j use the United States navy to convoy [supplies. t<> give parts of the fleet toj | Britain, to give planes, and to cancel j the Neutrality and Johnson Acts and! engage lhe country in war. | war materials DISPOSAL BY PRESIDENT. ! BILL "COVERS EVERYTHING." WASHINGTON. January 11. ! The Democrat leaders in Congress. ! I Senator Barkley and Mr McCormack.;

; said that under the Bill certificates fm * the disposal of war material from the i Chief of Stall or the Navy chief wen not needed Hitherto such disposal i was limited by the lav. requiring thi ■ defence chiefs to certify that an\ ■ material .-old must be •surplus." Thet . said the President would have power ' to dispose of new material as well as ■ equipment already in the hand.' of the : army and navy t The President would not be required < to make public*' transactions involving ’ shipment of war materials to friendls j nations. A clause authorising the J President to supply a friendly Powvi with military information would eni able the disclosure of detail, of the ! Navy secret bomb sight. The Bill did 1 net authorise the use of American i warships to deliver war materials to Administration supporters praised the Hill a- justified by the world I emergency. Asked whether the Bill would permit Britain to base part of her fleet ■ in United Slater harbours or air base.-. Serial.ir Barkley said: I vtmnof give ;a categorical answer The Bill .< like Alo’.her Hubbard--c n>wr< everythin’.! and touches nothing " p. 'la: *- Elb-rd Thomas said ConT.,• > dd rep- ■,.! tile b.O on United | States hippmg mitering the Combat IJAPPV IMPRESSION .TAPE IN CHEAT BHITAIN «», • »• <ni i 'V ' <•!»••« i HVGBY January 11. . The pve< prominence P.O-- ' Hw-evettN Bill m ...<! I'.ntmu < j . ! -.<• leg:-la t r -I. ill am S ; t b.< ’ i cb-ar that the char- ■ _■ •}(•*'*!* of tho h’u'i JJI |i>’l I »JM'•■(*(] 11*'' I niaHr happy ;?.h L r.dty a-soc.'.m-d ".-ph Aim-ncan * commii ii t mspi ir ■ . ■ • (a i B H be \RMS PRODI i Uo\ S P TED- U P I N UNf T E D

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