"Washington, Jan. 5.
Senator Bennett C. Clark, Democrat of Missouri, predicted today that Congress would prevent President Roosevelt from undertaking any economic reprisals against aggressors because stich action would constitute an "act of wer to which I am vigourously opposed unless we are prepared io go to war."
In support of such a policy, he recalled that economic reprisals were "tried against Italy during the Ethiopian invasion whereupon Signor Benito Mussolini announced he con-lered it an act of war. You can't get away with that kind of business unless you are prepared to get out your battleships and troops to defend 3t—United Press.
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