Senator Elbert Thomas, Democra Washington, Mar 26. of Utah, last night bitterly denounced the "cash and carry" clause in the new Pittman Neutrality Act as "unmoral" and called for fair treatment for victims of aggression.
Addressing the Committee for aid to China, Senator Thomas said the Pittman bill would reward the belligerent nation with the largest purse, which often is the aggressor nation, and notifies the world that the United States is merely a "cash and carry store."
Such an impression, he said, would lead to the belief that American policy is "founded on commercialism and no better than the dollar diplomacy which characterized our 19th Century history and our demand for rights as neutral which carried us into the Great War."
Senator Thomas said that except for the hope of a united Western Hemisphere, the United States trust in peace must rest upon a domestic neutrality law but this law "must be moral, fair and conscientiable."
Senator Thomas is a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee of which Senator Key Pittman, author of the new neutrality bill, is chairman.—United Press.
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