Washington, Marr.:13.
coalition in the House of Representatives of Republicans, Liberal Democrats, Progressives and Farmer-Labourites to-day prepared for a "showdown" on the foreign policy of the United States during the Navy Bill debate commencing on Monday.
The group plans to use the European situation as a vehicle to demand further clarification of the position of the United States in the international situation.
Mr. George H. Tinkham, Republican Representative from Massachusetts, announced that he was introducing a resolution directing the speaker of the House, Mr. William Bankhead, to name a five-man committee to investigate the foreign policy. He said he would ask that the committee be empowered to examine the extent to which the State Department was dominated by the British Foreign Office, to investigate the character of the intrigue or collusive political engagement that has apparently been entered into with Britain, and to decide the extent to" which the neutrality act has been violated.
Mr. Tinkham said that recent events "clearly indicate that a most radio broadcast, Mr.
Maury Maverick, Democratic Representative from Texas, said that the real purpose behind demands for a big Navy was to "police the world and preserve democracy at the point of a gun."
Austro-German Status The Austrian Minister, Herr Edgar L. G. Prochnik; to-day received instructions to notify Austrian consuls that Austria had been proclaimed "a land of the German Empire."
Diplomats here were puzzled over the wording of the proclamation feeling that it left still unsettled the precise character of the union between Germany and Austria. It could be' regarded as an autonomous state or as a German province.
Officials of the Department of State indicated they were seriously considering whether the forceful means used to accomplish the union would make recognition contrary to the policy of the United States. Some suggested that if the plebiscite ratified the union it might be possible for the United States to recognize German control of Austria on the basis of a voluntary union.
Mr. Donald L, O'Toole, Democratic Representative from New York, announced that he would make a speech in the' House on Monday demanding severance of relations with German; until Herr Adolf Hitler "relinquishes" Austria. He also said that he would introduce a bill cancelling the permit of the sale of helium to Germany.—United Press.
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