Washington, July 27.
"The American. Government's action came like a bombshell, since the Foreign Relations Committee of the Senate yesterday postponed discussion of the Treaty. until later in the week. The abrogation took the capital by surprise, Earlier in the day, Mr. Hull talked with President Roosevelt, after the President had seen his Far Eastern advisers. The President approved of the abrogation which does not become effective until January 26, 1940. Congress will then be in session, and will able to discuss the question of placing an embargo on the export of raw, materials to Japan.
The United States is Japan's largest supplier of the war materials necessary for war operations, principally cotton, iron, steel and petro-lenin.
Supporters of the embargo believe that its application will have such an effect upon Japan as to check her ili China, and, perhaps, to enforce her withdrawal. Opponents of the embargo regard it as a step towards war, believing that Japan will retaliate, after which: there will be retaliation by the United States, and, perhaps, a physical conflict.
U.S. Means Business Interviewed immediately after the announcement of the abrogation, Senator Key Pittman, Chairman. of. thei Foreign. Relations Committee of the Senate, said: "I think it a wise. justifiable act."
Ina news page story, the "New York Times" says that the Admini-strátion's step signifies that the United States is not only; standing on her rights in the Far East, but is prepared tp follow those rights, as they are infringed upon by Japan, with retaliatory action.
"United States action means," continues the paper, "that if Japan, through. the present. series of face-slappings of Americans by Japanese soldiers. in China, vis deliberately seeking to make the United States
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