Aircraft Manufacturers Support Moral Embargo Against Soviets; Severance of Relations Urged Washington, Dec. 2. BBC support is overwhelmingly behind President Roosevelt in his actions definitely naming Soviet Russia as an aggressor and applying a form of sanctions against the U.S.S.R. both of which are practices contrary to the intentions of the Congressional drafters of the Neutrality Act.
The statement by M. Viacheslav Molotov, Soviet Foreign Commissar, deser bing President Roosevelt's appeal to Moscow to refrain from bombing civilians as pointless has increased the anger in the United States.
Officials point out the American Legation has officially reported that civilian centres have been bombed and women and children killed, while actual bomb explosions were heard on one occasion across the trans-Atlantic telephone.
President Roosevelt and Mr, Cordell Hull, Secretary of State, had a long consultation this morning regarding the whole subject of relations with Russia and future steps which the Government, in response to pressure of public opinion, might be able to take.
President Roosevelt's secretary, Mr. William Early, stated today he understood a dispatch had been received [from Tass (official Soviet news agency) reporting a communique asserting that M. Molotov had described President Roosevelt's appeal as "pointless" The communique, it was reported, stated Russia was not bombing Finnish towns and did not intend to do so.
Mr. Early caustically commented: "I don't see how that constitutes at answer to Mr. Roosevelt's message u might ask the dead and injured civilians or their dependents how pointless it is."
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