AMERICAN NEUTRALITY

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 198, 24 August 1935, Page 9

AMERICAN NEUTRALITY

A COMPROMISE MADE TEMPORARY LEGISLATION. TRADITIONAL POLICY UPSET. Received Aug. 23, 8.45 p.m. WASHINGTON, Aug. 22. Mandatory neutrality legislation, which will be effective only until February 29, pressed with President Roosevelt’s sanction. Sweeping beyond traditional American policies the temporary resolution would plaso a> mandatory embargo on exports to belligerents, licence muni lions manufacturers and authorise the President to keep Americans off the ship of belligerent nations except at their own risk, and will provide other preventatives. The House Foreifn Affairs Committee, which rejected the Senate’s Bill, approved unanimously of tho compromise measure, but, except for tho temporary clause and two or three minor amendments, the compromise resolution contained virtually every restriction proposed by the Senate. The President’s approval is reported to be none too willing. He had emphatically disapproved of the enactment of any mandatory permanent neutrality law before the next session. The expiration cf legislation next February would throw the neutrality problem back in tho lap of Congress when it is convened again. It was considered likely 'that additional steps, including a ban on loans and credits to belligerents, might be considered then, and the loan.