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VIOLAT0RSIS
REITERATED
indications Are State Dept.
Feels Japan, Italy in
This Class

The state department today re-
plying to the house foreign al
fairs committees request that 1t
name the countries it regards Is
treaty violators, cited the prevl-
Gus statements on foreign pollcy
which indicated it felt that Italy
and Japan came in that category.
A letter from Acting Secretary
of State Sumner Wells, respond
ing to house resolution request
ing this information was made
public by committee chairman,
Sam D. McReynolds, D., Tenn.
The committee voted to report the
resolution adversely, citing that
all pertinent information had
been supplied.
There was no mention of Ger
many or the Austrian episode IN
the house.
WASHINGTON, Apr. 26. (UP)
The congressional dl'i:e to liberal
ize neutrality legislation empow-
ering the president to proclaim
! embargoes against nations trans
shipping war materials from the
| United States to hostile forces
gained new impetus yesterday.
Despite warnings that such en-
! bargoes would be tantamount to a
declaration of war, Senator j.
/ Hamilton Lewis 3D., Ill., speak
ing in the senate, and Representa-
! tive John T. Bernard GIL, Mimi
in nationwide broadcast, urged
! immediate revision Of the neutral
j ity act to equalize its effects on all
nations.
At the same time, Senator Ed
win c. Johnson 3D., Colo.) charg-
ed that enactment Of President
Roosevelt's $1,157,000,000 navy
expansion bill would be the first
step towards creation of an ag-
gressive foreign policy that might
lead to war.
Passage of this BILL" Johnson
declared, Twill have Immediate eff.
fects on every nation in the world
for they will know the United
States intends to far surpass her
defense needs and start another
world armament race
Johnson charged that the navy
+ department is attempting to steam
roller the expansion program
through congress at this session
because next year might not be
so conducive to war ScareS."
Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg
(R., Mich.) joined in the attack,
saying the United States is faced
with greater danger from bank
ruptcy than from possible foreign
aggression.
Lewis demanded that the gov
crnment take some action to pre-
vent the shipping of war supplies
to governments now at peace who
might transfer them to countries
at war"
He urged that Mr.. Roosevelt be
instructed to enforce licensing OF
all munitions shipments to foreign
countries, and called the senate'S
attention to the presence in this
country of representatives of Eng
land, Russia and Turkey, presum-
ably to purchase war equipment.
Lewis defended the presidents
foreign policy, however, declaring
this government has done all in its
power to carry out a program OF
collective quarantine of aggressor
nations but that foreign powers
had "failed to respond"
He attacked opponents of the
navy expansion program and ask
ed if they were willing to be de-
scribed as opposing an adequate
national defense to meet possible
foreign attacks.
Bernard appealed to the nation
to write the president demanding
that he lift the arms embargo
against Loyalist Spain, and charg-
ed that the neutrality act does not
represent a foreign policy APP
proved by the American people.
The house passed and sent to
the senate the Scott bill revising
the system of naval promotions.
President Roosevelt, Secretary Of
Navy Claude A. Swanson, Admiral
William D. Leahy, chief of naval
operations, and other navy Off
Gals conferred on the measure at
the White House yesterday. The
bill provides for an increase of
1850 active naval officers and
changes the promotion method by
which hundreds of qualified Off