The Archive · 1939

Neutrality Battle Enlarging Scope

President v. Congress Over All Foreign Policy Becoming Main Issue Washington, July 10.

The battle for revision of the much-discussed Neutrality act has extended and is now a conflict between President and Congress, with the fate of the arms embargo clauses only a side issue. On the eve of tomorrow's meeting of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Which is to decide which, if any, of the amendments should go before the upper house, larger issues than the original ones were seen to be at stake in the forthcoming debates. "This decision will be the preliminary fo a situation that has already centre "universal and intense inthe French Women's Volunteer Service attending to a "casualty" during the demon-(an aerial gas attack in connection with Paris air raid precautions.

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