AMERICAN NEUTRALITY

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 197, 23 August 1935, Page 7

AMERICAN NEUTRALITY

POWERS TO PRESIDENT RESOLUTION OF SENATE ARMS EXPORT POLICY [By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright] WASHINGTON, Aug. 21. A resolution which is designed to safeguard the neutrality of the United States in the event of a foreign war has been adopted by Senate and now goes to the House of Representatives lor action. It includes authority fur t.Jiv President to prohibit United Stales citizens from travelling on the ships of belligerent nations except at their own risk; to prevent ships, foreign or American, from carrying men and supplies to belligerent vessels at sea; to impose a mandatory embargo on exports ol‘ arms, munitions, and implements of war to all belligerents in a foreign conflict; to impose a system ui licensing the manufacture and export of munitions as a permanent policy of the Government along the lines of the Geneva Arms Treaty of 1925, which was ratified earlier in the session by the Senate; a ban against American ships carrying arms and munitions under embargo to any belligerent port or neutral port for reshipment to belligerents; and authority for the President to restrict or prohibit the entry of belligerent submarines into American waters or ports. Necessary in View of African Situation The resolution was introduced by the Foreign Relations Committee in the face of reports from London and Paris that the United States will be asked to co-operate with Britain in the Ethiopian crisis and official denials that the American Government had engaged in any diplomatic discussions on the question. Senator Huey Long declared that the resolution must be passed in view of the threatening situation in Africa. Senator Nyc said that he and his group were prepared to stonewall against ail pending important New Deal legislation until the passage of the neutrality measure was assured. There were many fiery speeches. Senator Clark said that without a neutrality policy President Roosevelt would be as powerless to keep the United States out, of war as President Wilson was in 1917. Senator Long asserted that Italy was jumping on Ethiopia just as Austria did on Serbia in 1914.