REPEAL OF ARMS EMBARGO

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 254, 27 October 1939, Page 7

REPEAL OF ARMS EMBARGO

EXPECTED TO BE EASY | PASSAGE THROUGH THE U.S.A. SENATE ISOLATIONISTS HAVE GIVEN LP ALL HOPE I DEBATE CONTINUES AT SNAIL'S PACE I [By Telegraph —Press Association— Copyright Received Oct. 26, 8.40 p.m. WASHINGTON. Oct. 25. In contrast, to yesterday’s speed, the i ?knate made only snailpace progress 1 ! in to-day’s neutrality debate, causing ’ I the Administration to doubt the pas- ' I sage of the measure before late toI morrow or on Friday. However easy, • I the passage is apparently only a ques--1 tion of time. Such leading isolationists as Senators W. E. Borah (Republican), and G. P. Nye (Republican) doubted whether they could muster more than 30 votes and have surrendered all hope of preventing repeal of the arms embargo. Senator Barkley (Democrat) agreed to accept the amendment by Senator W. Tobey (Republican) to penalise use of the United States flag and other markings by foreign vessels if he would make the penalty a three months’ han on the use of American ports instead of the proposed confiscation of the ship and cargo and. the lining and imi prisonment of the master, which would raise a serious question of United States rights as a neutral. A decision had not been reached at the adjournment. UNITED STATES TRADE WITH PACIFIC *1 IMPORTANT AMENDMENTS APPROVED ■ PRIX ATE ARMS Pl RCHASEKS TO PAY CASH WASHINGTON. Oct, 25. Important amendments to the Neutrality Bill wete approved by the Senate. •t One permits American vessels to n carry cargoes, except arms, to ceitain belligerent polls, exempting from - s the limitation ports on the ’lasmaa gs Sea and ports leached through the a Gulf of Maine, the Bay of Funciy, lhe y Pacific and Indian Oceans, and the China and Arabian Seas. 1< Ordinary goods shipped on American >f vessels are exempted from the title st transfer provision. Another amendment requires private purchasers in belligerent countries also to pay cash for arms. Senator T. Connolly (Democrat) speaking on the first, amendment, said the real object was to permit trade with Capetown. A proposal by Senator R. A. Taft (Republican) to prohibit ships from q passing within 300 miles of Europ* on their way to neutral countries was rejected by 71 votes to 18. The Vice-President, Mr. John N Gainer, wielded the gavel in the Senate to push the business along at a speed that, brought protests Horn lhe 9- floor and an irritated exchange between the Chair and one Senator. Mr. 5 . Garner replied to the protests. ie “I am not trying to railroad any--jf thing, but. there won’t be any hor.se i n and buggy business in the Senate while I am running it.” None for New Zealand, rof The United Press Washington c°i respondent states that lhe applicatioi a- of the arms embargo on belligerent re countries has (h evented lhe shipment ?d of £55 worth of helium gas to New Zealand hospitals, and £4') worth tc Canadian hospitals tor the treatment of asthma, pneumonia, and other respiratory ailments. id The Act. controlling the sale of )n helium gas provides thal none can be ■fo shipped to nations to which the arms at j embargo has been applied. s efl j FREEDOM OF US Ak? IN DANGER I l , REAL ISSUE OF THE WAR iie nd OPINION OF BRITISH AMBASSADOR A FIGHT FOR DEMO< RACk’. d: jn IBy Telegraph Press Association Copyright | cn Received Oct. 26, 10 p.m. lie NEW YORK, Oct. 26. es Lord Lothian, recently-appointed British Ambassador to Washington, he addressing the United States Pilgrims, e, said that the effect of United states c l< freedom would disappear if Germany ut won the war. a “At the end of the Great War there m. was more political freedom and deil- mocracy in the world than before,” id-' he said. “It is the future of that freei dorn which is at. stake to-day. The ; real issue of the war is whether there j will be power behind the kind of world in which England and France and I the democracies of Scandin.: ,ia bej lieve, or more relentless power behind ! a world in which national Socialism and Communism believe." I He accepted for Britain some blame for the war which, he said, “is, of course, the outcome of past mistakes, j but all wars are.’’ INDIA AND CEYLON jID 1 British Official Wireless! oi Received Oct. 2G, 5.5 p.m. n- RUGBY, Oct. 25. he It is understood in London that ;er negotiations are taking place be)le tween India and Ceylon for a conference in Delhi about the third week in November for the purpose of trade negotiations and discussion on quests tions qf emigration, immigration and • 0 . other outstanding matters of coniop, mon interest.