Washington, Jan. 26.
Any decision on the part of the United States to ship arms to the Spanish Republican Government might be met with a seizure of the supplies by the Spanish Nationalists, Germany or Italy and might involve the United States in a war, said Senator J, Hamilton Lewis, Democrat from Illinois, who denounced the "outside influence which is attempting to terrorise Congress into repealing the embargo law." Far from being removed, he said, the embargo should be tightened.
Senator Robert R. Reynolds, Democrat from North Carolina, declaring that Senator Lewis had expressed his own sentiments exactly, shouted in Congress session, "This country is warring with Japan at the present time. There is an undeclared war on the part of the United States against Japan. War, he said, began the day on which the Export and Import Bank authorized a $25,000,000 loan to China, "I knew," he added, "that somehow or other, Great Britain would get us involved in the Orient and now they have got us started on the way," The credits advanced to China were a result, he said, of an "agreement" with Great Britain, reached when Mr. Anthony Eden, former British Foreign Secretary, visited the United States.—Reuter. decided yesterday to expel Sir Stafford Cripps from the Party. The decision which was taken by eighteen votes to one and followed the campaign by Sir Stafford Cripps for the formation of a Popular Front contrary to the declared policy of the Executive.—Trans-Ocean.
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