Evening star., 1939-10-13
Nye Would Call.
|IndustriaIists
On Neutrality
Also Urges Cabinet
Opinion on Dangers
| OfWur Boom
By ]. A. O'LEARY.

After Senator Taft, Republican,
Of Ohio had vigorously supported
repeal OF the arms embargo, Senator
Nye, Republican, of North Dakota
took up the neutrality debate for the
isolationists this afternoon by pic
turing the dangers of encouraging
a war boom business in this country.
Senator Nye hurled two challenges
at supporters of the neutrality bill.
namely: First, to invite so leading
industrialists to tell a Senate COM
mittee whether they believed an "un-
limited" business boom would be a
good thing; second, to call in all the
members of the Presidents cabinet
on the same question.
Referring to the industrialists,
Senator Nye asserted:
Il dare the Senate to try to find
10 among the so who will wish to
repeat the experience of the last
war BOOM"
Earlier Senator Taft insisted that
the neutrality bill with strict CASH
and-carry terms and some other
changes is more likely to keep this
country at peace than the present
law, under which anything except
the munitions listed in the embargo
proclamation may be carried to the
war zone in American ships.
AS the Senate approached the
end of its second week of general
debate, with a Saturday session
scheduled, it appeared almost cer-
tain the general discussion would
extend we'll into next week before
amendments are considered.
Garner for Early Close.
Meanwhile, Vice President Garner
was reported authoritatively to be
exerting his influence to effect a
compromise on the shipping pro-
visions of the neutrality bill in an
effort to bring debate to an early
close.
Mr.. Garner, informed persons
said, has urged administration lead
ers to accept one of three COM
promise proposals made by Senators
johnson, Republican, of California;
White, Republican, of Maine, and
Bailey, Democrat, of North Carolina,
In order to clear away one obstacle
lying ahead of final vote on the
arms embargo repeal bill.
The three proposed amendments
were delivered today to Chairman
Pittman of the Senate Foreign Re-
lations Committee for his study.
Details were not revealed imme-
diately, but, among other things,
exemption of shipping to belligerent
nations in the Pacific is involved.
Emphasizes Challenge.
In challenging supporters of the
bill to seek the views of industry
on the effects of the measure, SEN
ator Nye declared:
Call Steetinius, call Ford, call
Du Pont, call Grace, call Clifford,
call Young, call Weir, call Knud-
sen, call Denison-call whomever
the Senate considers the leading SO
lndustrialists of the country, ana
ask them, is the unlimited war
boom allowed in the present CASH
and-carry bill a good thing for our
national life?' This is my first
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MY second challenge follows the
first. After you have heard from
the leading so industrialists in the
Nation, will then ask you to call
all the members of the Presidents
cabinet before this committee of
the Senate and ask them to show
how and why the industriaiists are
wrong in opposing the war boom
allowed in this cash-and- plan,
as it now stands, unamended, to
limit the war boom to the 1885,
1888 level.
II do not believe you will accept
this challenge, for you might find
you might possibly find that there
would not be one member of the
Presidents cabinet who would say
to you that such an unlimited war
boom would be good thing for our
economy, for our Nations real
good"
Senator Nye said these hearings
could be held without discontinuing
or slowing up Senate debate on the
bill.
Predicts Reputation.
Il believe - he added, "the respon-
slble leaders of industry and the
responsible members of the cabinet
will, under oath, repudiate the en-
deavor expressed in this bill to re-
gain our prosperity by tying it to
the coattails of that most uncertain
| time element in the world, a Eu-
ropean war: repudiate the theory
that any sound prosperity can be
built upon the sands of wholesale
murder"
Senator Nye said his point is
that, to prevent an unlimited war
boom, the bill should be amended to
hold trade down to normal. and that
the arms embargo itself is a way
of holding one part of the war boom
down.
In his speech Senator Taft voiced
the approval of provisions which
would prohibit American ships from
carrying goods to warning countries,
but recommended elimination of a
section permitting 90-day credits on
arms sales.
| we should prohibit our ships
from going to Europe" he said.
That policy is no more cowardly
than it is to keep people out of a
burning house. 1t is simply good
sense that we prevent American
citizens not only from risking their
own lives, but from plunging us into
a war which may involve millions
Of other lives"
| Preamble to Be Offered.
To remove any doubt that preser-
vation of peace is the objective of
repeal of the arms embargo, SEN
ator Taft announced he will offer a
preamble to the neutrality resolu-
ton, declaring it to be "the consid-
cred judgment of an overwhelming
proportion of our people that the
United States should not and need