Washington, Oct. 6. EL. Henry Stimson, former S secretary of State, appealed to the United States in a nationwide broadcast from New York last night to demand repeal of the arms embargo provisions of the Neutrality Act. Col. Stimson sai id the present Neutrality Act made leaders in Germany and other countries believe that the United States feel no responsibility for anything that happens abroad. "I believe the provisions of the Neutrality Act to a material extent encouraged the present breach of peace by Germany in Poland," he said.
Earlier in the Senate, Senat or Key Pittman, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, angrily challenged isolationist Senators to add cotton, oil and American-mined metals to the list of embargoed war materials und ler the Neutrality Act.
Senator Pittman said the willing-of isolationist Senators to impose an embargo on these three commodities, which he described as "i ments of mass murder," would ove the sincerity of the isolationists. Senator Pittman, who favours repeal of the embargo provisions, said the Neutrality Act in its present form had neither halted nor discouraged the outbreak of war in Europe.
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