Informed circles believe that President Roosevelt is delaying as much as possible the proclamation of neutrality, which would be beneficial] only to Japan, However, it is believed that the President will take this step if Japan started large-scale operations in China The invocation of the Neutrality Act would still inconvenience Japan in some ways, for she would have to pay cash for any materials purchased in the United States, while she would also have to bring them out in her own ships.
The question of proclaiming an embargo on certain raw materials such as iron, copper and petroleum also being studied althotigh authorities in Washington are convinced that Japan will immediately against such a measure.—Havas, Maj.-Gen. Butler's Outburst Philadelphia, Aug. 23.
Maj.-Gen. Smedley D. Butler, former commandant of United States Marines in China, to-day declared that the United States should wit draw all its forces now in the Eh nese war zone "unless the Government wants to get into trouble."
Quoted by the "Philadelphia Inquirer" in a copyrighted intervi the General, whose outspoken pronouncements have brought him international publicity on more than one occasion, asserted, "We have nothing to protect in China except the investments of some big-time industrial gamblers, We should have evacuated our people from China a week ago." United Press,
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