Washington. Apr. 21 Dr. Raymond Leslie Buell. president of the Foreign Policy Association, yesterday endorsed Senator Key Pittman's proposal for "cash and carry" neutrality legislation but urged Congress to make an exception in the case of the Orient where Japan would otherwise derive great advantage from such legislation Testifying before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, he said that if Congress adopted the Pittman proposals, provision should be made that Japan's large Navy did not give her riy advantages over China in the matter of obtaining American war materials or supplies.
He said Congress should deal with the situation in China separately because of the "Open Door, our traditional humanitarian interest in China. the Washington Conference treaties and our position in the Philippines."
Dr. Buell warned that a German Totalitarian attack against the Western Hemisphere could be expected if Britain and France were "destroyed" in a European war. The United States. he said, is much safer as long as the British. French and Chinese are resisting the aggressive Anti-Comintern axis Powers.
U.S. as "Ally of Japan"
Observers here stressed that the White House cannot regard the peace plea as a complete failure, however, because it at least appeased a number of domestic critics who had accused the President of adopting too belligerent an attitude in the early phases of the current crisis.—United Press.
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