Washington, Jan. 10.
Indicating—America's growing determination to be prepared for any Crisis, the House of Representatives, upon. the recommendation of President Roosevelt, to-day bottled up the Ludlow war referendum resolution for the remainder of the current session of Congress.
After the Speaker of the House, Mr. William B. Bankhead, Democtatic Representative of had made one of his few depar from the rostrum to read a letter from Mr, Roosevelt recommending the defeat of the resolution, the House voted 209 to 188 to send the proposal into committee for the remainder of the The closeness of the vote, however, was taken by some observers to indicate that the President must still convince a large proportion of the population of the wisdom of his views regarding armament. Shelving of the resolution, however, was heralded in Administration circles as another victory for the New Deal.
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