LOAN TO FINLAND
AMERICAN PROPOSAL ATTA( KI'.D IX TDK S’. X'T WASHINGTON, .lan. Ki. I President Roosevelt’s proposal that j th.' United Slates should extend to i Finland credit for non-miiilury purl chases was immediately attac.icd i y ; Senator U’. F. George (Democrat >. ”H iis no different on a basis of inter- ' national law from what it would hr I if we sent an American battleship to , Finland," ho said. "If you want I > do J that, let’s do it, hut lot’s stop whip[l ping the devil around tho >' .?-.p. and .[take the responsibility for it our- . i Senatoi J. A. Danaher (Republican; , . asked lor the application ot th° r.eu- ! [ trality law in lhe Rus-ia-Finni'-h conl flict, and Senator G. M. Gillette > (Democrat) urged the same regaraI ing the conflict between China and ■ I Japan. i I Mr. Roosevelt, at a Press contcr- ■ [ once, said that the law was not applic.l able to the Finnish conflict because [• j there had been no declaration of war. j In the House of Rcprescntatives Mr. i S. Rayburn (Democrat), apparently ' leading a pro-loan element, even sugs gested that if Finland did i.ot neo 1 i some of the non-mil tmw communities 1 she would purchase w.tn Amer:ean [money she could sell them io oth rt r i I nat ion-'.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 84, Issue 16, 19 January 1940, Page 5
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217LOAN TO FINLAND Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 84, Issue 16, 19 January 1940, Page 5
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