The Archive · 1937

U.S. Peace Bodies' Demand

Washington, Sept. 2.

Six United States peace organizations have jointy sent a letter to President Roosevelt demanding that the Neutrality Act be applied immediately to the Sino-Japanese conflict.

"We earnestly believe," the letter declares, that the United States cannot afford to permit such a conflict as is going on in the Far East to proceed without stamping it as war.

"The application of the Neutrality Act would clarify a world situation in this respect by labelling by their right name, armed attacks by one nation on another."—Reuter

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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