The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-04-26
NEUTRALITY ACT
 FIGHT IN SENATE
Republicans Try to Pre- vent Action as Secretary
 ', Hull Again Hits Out

Washington, April 26. -- (UP) = Senate Republicans sought today to postpone action on neutrality legis- lation until the next session of Con- gress. They contended that public sentiment is not sufficiently crys- talized for determination of foreign policy.
 Minority Leader Charles L. Mo- Nary, Republican, Oregon, is nego- tiating for an agreement to extend the "cash-and-carry" provision of the present neutrality law, which expire Monday, until next session and delay an anticipated Senate battle over revision of the act.
 Meanwhile, the United States fur ther cautioned dictator nations by word and by acts of preparedness to abandon policies of aggression.
 The warnings, coinciding partly by accident and partly by design only two days before Adolf Hitler replies to President Roosevelt's appeal for a non-aggression agreement, were:
 Hull Again Attacks
 Secretary of State Cordell Hull, addressing the annual Red Cross convention, said there is no room flor a single nation or a group of nations" trying to "enslave and dom- mate all the others" He said this nation was prepared to contribute it's share toward peace, but also was ready to defend its interests and in- stitutions.
 The Senate passed and sent to the President the War Department ap- propriation bill carrying $508, ,78O ,OO0 for the army, including funds for 584 ne wfighting planes.
 MT. Roosevelt signed naval ex- pansion authorization bill authoriz- ing expenditure of $66, $500, 0,O00 for air bases in Alaska, the Pacific, Puerto Rico and continental United States.
 The House passed national de- fense bill authorizing purchase dur ing the next four years of $100, ,000,- 900 of strategic war minerals.
 President Roosevelt, addressing the Red Cross delegates at the White House, declared that fin a world disturbed by war and fear of war the unselfish devotion of the Red Cross to the welfare of others stands out in striking contrast to inhumane acts which have shocked our con- science"
 Warnings to Disturbers
 HulPs speech indicated that these activities were coordinated as warn ings to disturbers of international peace. He described as authors of war" those nations which resort to armed force for territorial expan- sion or domination of others"
 Whenever there are nations in the world which adopt this type of policy, their intentions and actions inevitably set into motion forces of resistance" he said. Terrible as are the realities and consequences of war, sooner or later conditions arise in which peaceful and peace-loving nations prefer armed defense to sub- jection and slavery.
 There is ample room on this earth for the two billion human beings who inhabit 1t. There are ample known resources of materials and skill to enable all nations to enjoy high level of economic pros- perity and to face a future of con- tinued plenty.
 No Room On Earth
 But there never has been, and there is not today, room on this earth for a political organization of mankind under which a single na- tion or a group of nations wil len- slave and dominate all the others" A nation choosing either isolation or armed aggrandizement, he con- tinued, "inflicts an incalculable in- jury upon it's own people and upon the world as whole"
 He cautioned dictator nations, without naming them, that any dreams of world conquest were fore doomed and reminded that 1t is not yet too late to turn from a war threatening course.
 We hope devoutly that a nego- tiated reace before, rather than after, the senseless arbitrament of war will be the happy lot of mankind we are prepared to make our appropriate contribution to such a peace," he said.
 But if our hopes are doomed to disappointment we are equally prepared to defend successfully our nationa Interests and our cherished institutions"