Washington, Apr. 3 Colonel Henry L. Stimson, U. Secretary of State in the Hoover Cabinet, will be the first witness to testify when the Senate Foreign Relations Committee opens hearing today on the revision of the neutrality legislation. Col. Stimson is known to be a strong supporter of President Roosevelt's ideas on the neutrality question.
He is expected to be bombarded with questions and as a large gallery appeared certain, Senator Kay Pittman, Chairman of the Committee, arranged for a specially large hall for the hearings.
Political observers predicted that the debate on the revision of th neutrality legislation would prove to be one of the longest and most bitterly fought of all battles in the present session of Congress.
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