Republican, yesterday expressed the opinion that neither Senator Pittman's embargo resolution nor any other measure aimed at Japan had the slightest chance of adoption at this session of Congress.
In an. interview with the United Press, Senator Austin said the Congressional leaders President Roosevelt had called to his conference to discuss neutrality legislation had given full consideration to all phases of the situation in the Orient, including the restrictions imposed by the Japanese on the British and French concessions at Tientsin and the hostilities on the border between Manchukuo and Outer Mongolia. While he has unable to reveal the nature of the discussions in any detail, he was able to state positively, he said, that the general decision to abandon neutrality legislation so far as the present session was concerned inevitably included such special measures as the Pittman resolution.
"This resolution is closely interwoven with the whole question of the neutrality of the United States," he said.
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