The Archive · 1939

Democracies Favoured

Administration supporters in the Senate Foreign Aflairs Committee today indicated that there was a riy belief that the United States favours a policy designed to Democracies against the Totalitarian States in the event hosti-ities break out as hearings on the revision of the neutrality law entered the second week. ted the hearings before the Foreign Affairs Committee nue into the third week. They (that there was a growing nee of the statement by Mr. Bernard Baruch. former chairman of the War Industries Board, before the committee that there thing as real neutrality this there is increasing willingness 10 consider proposals for furthering the United States' own interests in meos Tewlited to aid non-aggressors ily. The real issue of the hearings will be to convince isolation ists th this Is possible without in the danger of the United becoming involved in war, the committee members said. erally believed that Doll, which showed fav will come out openly in favour of Senator Key Pittman's proposed changes in the Neutrality "Act authorize a delay in the entire programme if isolationist strength apears strong enough to kill or rad ally alter the Pittman plan—United Press.

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