The Archive · 1939

Mandatory Provisions

In this connection, Senator Pittman stated that many mandatory provisions had been worked into the Bill because authority should not be delegated, "where it is unnecessary, io the President or any other single man or group of men, We knew that the delegation of such authority is not only unnecessary but unuseful"

The speaker justified the prohibi-lion of American shipping from trading with belligerents on the ground that the illegal and inhuman killing of American seamen on the high seas was. responsible for America's entry into the last war. He declared the provision for 00-day credits would not be in conflict with the Johnson Act, as transactions on short term credit basis were considered the equivalent of cash pa: ments, The case against the Bill was presented by Senator Borah, leader of the isolationists, who read a lengthy prepared address. He said the Administration's Bill to revise the Neutrality Law had been accepted in Europe as an attempt to aid Britain and France in their struggle against Nazism.

*Having changed our laws that we may send arms to the Allies because of their urgent call" he said, "I do not see how we could refuse io send armies in the hour of their greater need, should that hour unfortunately come. I do not see how we could. I doubt very seriously if we would." Reuter, I. Moscicki Allowed to Reside Switzerland Berne, Oct. 3.

The Federal Council have author ized the entry into Switzerland el Dr. Ignace Moscicki, former President of Poland, and Mme Moscicki Dif Moscicki, still in Bucharest, wag born in 1867 at Plock, in a part of Poland which then belonged t4 Russia. In 1892, like a great number of Polish patriots, he had to g abroad. In 1897 he settled down i" Fribourg, Switzerland, and became professor of physics in the famous university of that city. In 1908, thi Swiss Government granted him Swi: citizenship. Dr, Moscicki intends t settle again at Fribourg where hi spent several years a quarter of century ago.—Havas.

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