Washington, July 2.
The Secretary of State, Mr. Cordell Hull, last night issued a formal statement bristling with hostility toward the embargo provisions incorporated into the neutrality bill adopted by the House of Representatives here yesterday.
Mr. Hull said he would continue to work for Congressional approval of the Administration's neutrality recommendations as outlined in the Bloom Neutrality Act before its amendment by the House.
Mr. Hull said the action of the House was "a matter of regret and disappointment" to him from the standpoint of assuring America's continued isolation from foreign wars.
Meanwhile, Senate _isolationists predicted that the action taken by the House yesterday was the signal for the complete defeat of the Administration's neutrality programme.
Mr. William Bankhead, Speaker of the House and advocate of Mr. Hull's neutrality programme, said last night that he feared the failure of the House to eliminate the arms embargo provisions from the new neutrality bill might "cause trouble-makers in Europe to draw the conclusion that there is not concerted action in the United States between the executive and legislative branches of the Government on national policy."
"I am very apprehensive," he added, "over the repercussions abroad which might be caused by this act in the next few days which may bear ouj my apprehension."—United Press.
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"I deeply regret that the Congress did not pass the draft of the Neutrality Bill sponsored by the Administration, Mr. Cordell Hull declared at his usual press conference this morning.
will exert all my efforts to obtain the cancellation of the arms embargo clause and the adoption of a legislation along the principles I mentioned in my letters to Senator Pittman and Representative Sol Bloom on June 27" Secretary Full added.
He further declared that the Administration had every reason to believe that the project sponsored by it was the best way to keep the U.S. out of war. The Government project had been drafted only after lengthy consultations with members of the Foreign Affairs Committees: both of the House and of the Senate; it might have not embodied all the individual wishes of the several members of the Congress and of the Administration but it was certainly the best suited to the present tense international situation, Mr. Cordell Hull voiced his regret that a few voices had defeated a plan drawn out in view of the maintenance of peace and for the preservation of the principles most sacred to the U.S.
its international relations.
The Government-sponsored project is the only one which might keep the country out of war once a conflict is started and also prevent a war from starting. Finally it is the only one entirely compatible with universally admitted rules of international law, Secretary Hull concluded. "That is why I must go on fighting for the adoption of the Governments six points neutrality programme, the Secretary concluded—Havas.
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