AMERICAN NEUTRALITY
No Departure From Policy STATEMENT IN SENATE (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright’ Received Feb. 2, 10.5 p.m. WASHINGTON, Feb. 1. In tiie Senate, Senator Johnson criticised Mr Roosevelt’s use at Chicago of the word “quarantine” if intervention in the Orient were not implied. He asserted that Presidential utterances were serious matters ana words should be very carefully weighed. Senator Borah inquired the meaning behind the recent statement b> Mr Eden allegedly implying a secret understanding between Britain and the United States, also the speech by Mr Bingham asserting that the United States would fight beside Britain in future wars.
Senator Pittman denied emphatically that the United States had any agreement regarding a military alliance with any foreign nation.
Senator Lewis blamed much of the misunderstanding of American policy on “certain foreign officials who have for years seemed to feel it was their duty to civilisation to interpret United States expressions and define them from the viewpoint implying support of their Government’s under takings.”
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 28, 3 February 1938, Page 7
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