Evening star., 1936-01-13
URGES ABSOLUTE
BAN ON EXPORTS
Ludlow Also Would Include
Loans and Credits in
Neutrality Bill.
By the Associated Press.

6y tno ASSOCldteo fTeSS.
An absolute ban on all American
exports, loans and credits to warning
nations was urged ON the House For
eign Affairs Committee today by Rep
resentative Ludlow, Democrat, OF In
diana during hearings on the admin
tstration's neutrality bill.
Joining him in demands for legisla-
ton more rigid than that advanced
by the administration were Represent
atives Lamneck, Democrat, of Ohio
and Kopplemann, Democrat, of Con-
necticut.
IT am dead against the normal quota
principle" Ludlow asserted. If we
are determined to keep this country
neutral and protect it from foreign
wars, we had better throw the normal
quota idea overheard at the outset
and cut off all trade and financial
relations absolutely with a foreign
country when it goes to war"
The administration bill, introduced
by Chairman McReynolds, Democrat,
of Tennessee. would permit American
shipments of war materials in an
amount equal to the normal shipments
to belligerents as determined by five
year average.
Lamneck said he thought Congress
ought to tell the President definitely
when he could put embargoes on war
materials.
Kopplemann proposed that normal
trade quotas be set up on basis of a
10-year average. but that business be
conducted with belligerents within the
quotas strictly on "cash-and- carry"
plan, with American vessels forbidden
to carry war materials or enter war
zones.
Freedom of Seas Issue.
Freedom of the seas became fight
Ing issue. meanwhile, as the Senate
Foreign Relations Committee projected
new studies of the bill.
Already shorn of language which
some Senators felt tied the United
States too close to League of Nations
sanctions. the bill came up for further
consideration in that committee today
Warnings were heard against re-
hnquishment of the policy extending
Government protection to American
merchant ships on the high seas in
time of foreign wars.
Senator Borah of Idaho, ranking
Republican on the committee. was
among those who protested last week
against what he termed conflicting
provisions. One says America can
carry on normal trade in commodities
which are not munitions, but are USE
full in war The other declared such
trade will not have the customary pro-
lection of the Government.
Borah Hits Policy.
It is cowardly, Borah was reported
to have argued. to have the Govern
ment say, You can trade in peace
time amount, but We won't protect the
trader"
Insurance companies would not
guarantee such shipments, he was said
to have told the committee and Sec
retary Hull, who was before it at the
time. 1t was argued that Great Britain
and France. with an eye to increased
trade, would want nothing better than
such policy. O.,
Borah contended further that the
bill should provide either one or two
things: Forbid shipments of any kind
or protect what is shipped legitimately
and not put the entire burden of risk
on the shipper.
Senator Is Unyielding.
This would avoid surrendering what
the Idahoan regards as the great
policy" of freedom of the seas He
would make no concession on this to
Great Britain.
Contrabrand shippers would not be
afforded the protection he would pro-
vide others, he was reported as saying.
Despite diSagreements as to con-
struction of phraseology in the bill as
it stands, committee members believe
it will not be difficult to obtain a
full agreement on the measure to be
reported.