The Archive · 1939

Whole Foreign Policy Involved

Most Congressmen now declare that the problem of maintaining or abolishing the arms embargoes clause of the Act, originally the most important issue of neutrality debates, is now secondary in significance. In the event of war, the United: States' final attitude would not be seriously modified by the maintenance of embargoes clause, they said.

The neutrality issue has developed into an issue involving the whole foreign policy of President Roose-Vel. A large number of Senators directs its attack against the whole of the President's course in international affairs, and it is on this

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