Sure Points li n Foreign Policy Centred In Phenomenal Rearmament, Credits Ban Washington, May 2.
HE "cash and carry" provisions of the nation's neutrality legislation expired at midnight last night amid national debate and uncertainty on most phases of United States foreign policy. The only points of foreign policy which appeared to have unanimous support today were the Pre: sident's $2,000,000,000 rearmament programme and the maintenance of the Johnson Act which forbids American loans or credits to nations which have defaulted in their debts to the United States.
The House and Senate foreign affairs committees will terminate public hearings this week on proposed revision of the existing neutrality legislation with little prospect of agreement, When a decision finally is reached, it must synchronize with President Roosevelt's views to become e! projects, the rearmament program: gress will cost $2,000,000,000, a effective. Including quasi-defence mme now being enacted by Con-peace-time record for the United States.
The naval appropriation bill, totalling almost $80,000,000, probably will be reported to the House of Representatives tomorrow. It is expected to be approved before the end of the week. President Roosevelt then is expected to submit to Congress sup-elemental estimates of $250,000,000 to complete the expansion of the Army Air Force to 6,000 planes.
Dr. Philip Marshall Brown, executive of the American Peace Society, meanwhile testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that he foresees the possibility of an agreement between Japan, Germany and the Soviet Union regarding problems in the Pacific.
Dr. Brown said that as the United States has "gained the enmity of these three nations," such an alliance would have "vast implications" for the United States in the event America became involved in war in the Pacific, The United States,"he said, should preserve the utmost freedom of action in the preservation of her neutrality.
"This would seem to depend, in the last analysis, on the cautious conduct of foreign affairs rather than legislative restriction and commitments," he said. "There need be no sacrifice
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