Evening star., 1939-10-16
Controversial Credit
Clause Is Dropped
From Neutrality Bill
Pittmun Announces
Strictly Gosh Plan
Will Be Substituted

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to the amendments next week, but
there is no way of knowing how
long they will be discussed"
Senator Nye said that at least a
dozen opposition speakers still
wanted to talk
Another oppositionist, Senator
Lundeen, Farmer-Labor, of Min
nesota, told reporters that debate
would continue two or three weeks
or longer.
Meeting on Shipping.
Among Democratic Senators it was
reported also today that those men,
bers of the Foreign Relations Com
mittee who are interested in relaxing
the bills prohibition against Ameri-
can ships visiting warning nations
would meet early this week, probably
tomorrow, to work out an agreement
on this subject.
One Senator, who declined to be
quoted by name. expressed the
opinion that majority of the For
eign Relations Committee would
agree to an amendment permitting
American ships to operate in the
Western Hemisphere, adjacent is
lands and to all countries not within
actual combat areas designated by
the President.
Such an amendment, it was said,
would permit American ships to sail
freely in the Pacific, to belligerent
Australia and New Zealand and to
neutral ports.
To accomplish the results out
lined, the Senator predicted, the
bill would retain the present meas
ures general prohibition against
ships of the United States merchant
marine entering belligerent ports,
but would provide exceptions in the
case of ports which the President
found to be outside zones of actual
combat. Shipping to the east Goa -
of Canada would be permitted at
the outset, it was said, but if the
water in this region became COM
bat zone the President would be
required to halt the movement of
American vessels into the area.
Another provision described as
likely to win the committees ap-
proval would permit delivery of car
goes already afloat when the new
bill became effective.
Further Amending Proposed.
Senator George Democrat, of
Georgia, a member of the Foreign
Relations Committee and a sup
porter of the administrations bill,
proposed meantime that the meas
ure be amended further. He said
1t should provide that all arms, am
munition and implements of war
sold to anyone in warning nation,
including private companies, be con-
sidered to have been purchased by
the belligerent government. This
would prevent such sales being made
on credit to private firms in the
warning countries.
The Georgian told reporters he
would not ask that the credits which
the bill now allows to private firms
on purchases of goods generally be
prohibited. The bills requirement
that belligerent purchasers take title
to goods before they are shipped
would suffice, he predicted, to hold
exports to the warning nations to
near-normal levels.
Opposing repeal of the embargo
and urging the United States to avoid
being drawn into the war, Senator
Clark of Idaho, criticized England
and France for turning cold shoulder
to the German peace suggestions OF
last week.
only last week." he declared,
Germany proposed truce. Whether
we think it was too stringent was
beside the point. 1t proposed new
Poland, true Poland, not Poland
including so per cent of Germans,
Russians and Ukrainians. 1t meant
not only a categorical no but super
cilious attitude from England and
France. This places England and
France in the role of aggressors.
They could at least have made coun-
ter proposals."
Discusses Persecution.
Discussing the persecution OF
racial and minority groups in Ger
many as one of the causes of the
war, Senator Clark added:
"It is not so long since the
mongrel head of the Ku Klux Klan
raised its head here against the
same minority groups being perse-
cuted in other parts of the world"
Contending that the Hitler regime
in Germany is an outgrowth of the
Versailles treaty, Senator Clark con-
tended that they have created a
Frankenstein with their own hands
and now seek our aid to destroy it. y
Senator Bridges, Republican, of
New Hampshire announced, mean
while, that he will seek to have in
serted in the bill preamble ex-
pressing the determination of the
American people to remain neutral.
The Senate debate has revealed
that some influences want to pass
the present bill for the purpose OF
helping one group of the European
-belligerents," Senator Bridges said.
I'VE must keep in mind that the
proposition before us is how we can
best preserve this country's peace,
not primarily how we can help one
group or the other"
In the House, Representative
Reed, Republican, of New York, de-
scribed the neutrality bill as sham
legislation which is neither neutral
in theory or in fact"