Sen. Pittman on Result Of Year's Hostilities "Washington, July 10.
A years warfare in China has demonstrated that the Roosevelt administration must be granted wider latitude in its economic and commercial dealings with China and Japan—in other words the revision of the Neutrality Act.
This statement was made yesterday by Senator Key Pittman, President of the Senate.
"I believe that the Administration will present to Congress suggestions for discrimination, and also that, speaking generally, Congress is considering the necessity of such action," he said.
"I think this year of warfare in China has aroused on the part of the American public a serious prejudice against the Japanese Government, and a growing desire to aid China," he declared.
As long as the Neutrality Act remained unchanged, Senator Pittman concluded, Japanese purchases of products from the United States would continue to increase, and those of China decrease, because the Japanese blockade of China ports was making it increasingly difficult for China to import goods from America.—Reuter.
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