THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 2, 1939
Isolationists Up In Arms At Roosevelt Statements Comment Believed To Foreshadow End Of Neutrality Act Embargoes R.F.C. LOAN-
Hoover
Attacks Roosevelt Policy
New York, To-day. Revelations in the New York press concerning the foreign poli- tical statements made by President Roosevelt before the Military Affairs Committee of the Senate, were commented upon by former President Hoover in a nationwide broadcast from Chicago.
President Hoover severely criti- eized Roosevelt's foreign policy which, he declared, was bound to involve the United States in War.
Roosevelt's actions clearly indi- cated the drastic modification of American policy since the United States entry into the world war.
L
CLEAVAGE IN OUTLOOK
Washington, To-day.
Protests were made yesterday by the isolationist group in Congress against the secrecy with which President Roosevelt surrounded his con- ference with the Senate military affairs com-
OFFER IN N.Y.
'New York, To-day.
The Treasury, will offer public- ly on Monday next week $300,- 000,000 in Reconstruction Finance Corporation notes,
The proceeds will presumably be used to repay the Corpora- tion's debts to the Treasury.— Reuter.
mittee, at which he is reported to have made AUSTRALIANS
sensational statements of the American fron- tier being in Europe.
However, from other quarters there has been a
more favourable reaction.
ASKED NOT
Senator Key Pittman declared: "To refuse permis-TO COMMENT
sion to the Democracies to prepare to defend themselves would be to aid the threatening powers."
the
A statement typical. of the isola- tionist point of view was issued by Senator Hiram Johnson, who con- people tended that the American had a right to know whether sale of planes to France and Bri- tain meant that the United States was on the road to war.
Senator Johnson added that to tell or war could neither repair injus-the committee of the Senate in se- tice nor permanently enforce a dic- tated peace.
Common sense and experience showed that the application of force, threats, economic sanctions
In view of the consequences which a foreign policy such as that now pursued by Roosevelt might have for the American nation, po- licy should be determined by Con- gress and not by the President alone.
"Shall we be judges in disputes which began long before our nation was born?"
the crecy what concerns not only Senate but all the people, is to invite distortion and misapprehension.
NEUTRALITY ACT
It is widely predicted in Washing- ton that President Roosevelt's re- marks foreshadow abandonment of the embargoes on shipments of arms, ammunition and aeroplanes to belligerents when the Neutrality Act comes up for revision in May. In this connection one commenta- Referring to Roosevelt's attacks tor observed that in the event of would be- war America on "aggressor nations" Mr. another Hoover pointed out that a large come the "greatest source of sup- part of the present territory of the plies in world history." United States had been gained by "American mass production ma- "aggression" and that the same ap-chines will produce aeroplanes, guns, plied to a large part of the terri- tanks, food and clothing at a speed tories of the French and British no-one else can match," he declared. Empires.
policy before any definite decision
taken.
CASH AND CARRY
He demanded that Congress be
It is pointed out that Britain and given occasion to discuss in every France would be the chief bene- single case the course of American ficiaries of such a change in the Neutrality Law, because American insistence that purchases be made on a "cash and carry" basis, na- turally favours the side with largest navy and merchant fleet and the greatest gold reserve.
INCREDIBLY LUCKY
Canberra, To-day.
All Australian Cabinet Minis- ters received a telegram yester day from the Prime Minister, Mr. peace and security is not the Atlan-J. A. Lyons, asking them to refrain tic Ocean but Britain and France." for the time being from making
OUT OF STEP
The isolationists, Senator Clark
that
the
French
in the Senate yesterday and Senator Gerald Nye, demanded military affairs committee's records
into of the investigation plane purchases be published.
Senator Nye said he would boy. cott future secret meetings of the committee which "are completely out of step with what should be the practice in a Democracy."--Reuter.
"WARMONGERING CAMPAIGN"
now
arouse
any public comment on Hitler's Reichstag address. Mr. Lyons said that although "parts of Hit-
bitterness and criticism” the speech ler's speech were apt to should be judged as a whole. The times required that persons in re- sponsible positions should keep cool heads. Trans-Ocean.
DR. BENES OFF TO AMERICA
London, To-day.
"The Berliner Nachtausgabe❞ writes that the United States have. definitely abandoned the policy of
The former President of Czecho- neutrality. Washington has
warmon- slovakia, Dr. Edward Benes, will become the centre of a gering campaign against the sail to-day on board the American totalitarian countries.
liner "Washington" for. America, The "Lokal Anzeiger" says that where he expects to remain five Washington and Moscow are "tug- months.
Three months have been ging at the same rope." President Roosevelt has so effectively disposed aside for lectures on democratic Ex-Presi- of the ridiculous fable that the so-institutions which the called Democracies are threatened dent will deliver at Chicago Uni- that henceforth nobody can take it versities.
set
seriously.
It is stated that on his return 'to All papers allege that the Pre-England, Dr. Benes will again sident is largely influenced by the take up residence at his house in
Trans-Ocean. developments on the American home Putney.
front but deplore that the Presi dent's statement should have been
made immediately after Chancellor ROUND AFRICA Hitler's speech, the favourable re-! ception of which abroad had caused
the much satisfaction here.-Trans-
Roosevelt's announcement of de- termination to apply all measures short of war against aggressor na- tions was completely incompatible with declaration made by the Se- cretary of State, Mr. Cordell Hull, at Lima, and also with the tradi-·
which tional policy of America
The "New York World-Telegram" forbade interference in the inter- says in an editorial: "What is hap- nal or foreign affairs of any other pening is that France and Britain country.
are paying us in gold for the privi- lege of strengthening one of the To starve out a civilian popula- most important and most threaten- tion, was certainly not more moraled outposts of our national defence. than to kill them by bombs. Pur- "We are incredibly lucky to have suance of such a policy would made such a deal. In terms of arouse the suspicions of the entire world against America.
Hoover concluded his broadcast with the question:
Shall we be the policeman of the world?-Trans-Ocean.
Ocean.
FLIGHT
FRANCE AND Siebel FH 104, with Lieutenants
FRANCO
were
Addis Ababa, To-day. The German sporting plane,
Balthasar and Kaldrack and Ser- geant Majer Anhaeuser aboard, ar- rived on their Round-Africa flight Paris, To-day.
at Addis Ababa, where the flyers The weekly
"Candide". paper, states that the French Government
received by the Duke of will shortly appoint an "envoy ex- Aosta, Viceroy of Ethopia. The traordinary" to Burgos,
flyers will continue to Johannes- According to the paper, M. burg. Trans-Ocean. Daladier and M. Bonnet are vinced that this is the only means of safeguarding French interests national defence a plane deliver- in Nationalist Spain. The paper ed to England and France would be worth ten times that many de- livered to the American air force six months from now.
con-
BADLY BITTEN
believes that the choice will fall A 12-year-old boy, J. Marcado, on General Catroux, one of the col- was yesterday treated at the Kow- laborators of the late Marshal loon Hospital, for injuries to arms Lyautey in Morocco, and a personal and hands, after he had bitten by "It should be apparent that the friend of General Franco-Trans- a dog owned by his mother at No. outermost bulwark of American Ocean.
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