The Archive · 1937

U.S. PACIFISTS ON NAVY ATTITUDE

Order to Retaliate Attacks Here May Cause War Washington, Oct. 28.

The six American peace organiza tions to-day declared that the U.S. Navy was determining American policy in the Far Bast.

"They asserted that the nation was being pushed into another "war to war" and demanded that the Administration immediately announce policy in accord with the convie+ tion of the American people that a war of aggression cannot be ended by war."

The charges wore based on the recent onder of Admiral Harry Yarnell, Commander-in-Chief of the U.S. Asiatic Fleet, instructing the Marines to fire on Japanese planes al lacking their defence sector Shanghai.

The order, said the pence organiza tions, "is clear proof of the Administration's M-hour potiey, leading toward war and directly opposed to the letter and spirit of the Neutrality Act""—United Press,

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