The Archive · 1937

America May Alter Isolation Policy

"N.Y. Times" on Acceptance of Responsibility New York, Sept, 12.

The events in the Far East and the Mediterranean are proofs of the difficulties which the United States Gor ernment will have to face in adopting en isolation policy, writes the "New York Times" to-day, in commenting on world events.

"The present embarrassment of the United States Government," the journal states, "in connection with the eventual application of the Neutrality Act shows the useless ne: of an isolation policy. The Amer can public is certainly not ready yet to accept a policy of joint action in p of the isolation policy, but owing to the fact that American commercial and financial circles are feeling more and more the necessity of maintaining harmonious relations with other nations, it is possible that the United States may accept little by little the r ibility which it should assume great world power."—Havas.

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