Senator Key Pittman Informs Veterans Washington, Apr. 27.
Senator Key Pittman, Democrat of Nevada, Chairman of the Senate ment would pass the defence expenditure because all parties were convinced of the necessity for rearmament.
Foreign Governments, he declared. would make a drear mistake if they reckoned on any faltering. whatever the sacrifices involved, so long as the threat existed of aggression from Fowers who were still using war as an instrument of rational policy (Cheers), Foreign Relations Committee and foreign policy spokesman for the Administration in Congress, declared today that the United States must be prepared for war as the most effective means of preserving peace.
Addressing a Veterans of Foreign Wars delegation which presented Congress with more than 4,000,000 petitions demanding that this Gov-€rnment keep America out of war, Senator Pittman endorsed President Roosevelt's super-Navy as a peace insurance polic the Administration is "striving seriously and sincerely to maintain actual neutrality."
He advocated Government control of the munitions manufacturing industry and emphasized that "we must not repeat the disgraceful orgy of profiteering that characterized the World War." He said the Administra-lion is opposed to military alliances, conquest, invasion and interference in the domestic affairs of other Governments.—United Preis.
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