Washington. Feb, 24.
Congressional observers declared yesterday that the first major Senate test of the lend-lease bill would occur this week when Senators voted on an amendment forbidding the despatch of American troops into foreign wars.
The amendment presented by Senator Allen J. Ellender, Louisiana Democrat apparently will win the support of all non-interventionist sentiment, Senator Hiram Johnson, California Republican and strong isolationist, challenged the Democratic Party leaders to accept the proposal as a "test of the Administrations sincerity."
"If the amendment is defeated,"
Senator Johnson said. "it means that Administration forces are intent to get the United States into war with men."
He said that unless such restrictions were embodied in the lend-lease bill it "may be only a few days" after enactment of the measures until the nation is at war and "war certainly means, the end of American Democracy.
Administration leaders indicatea they were opposed to the amendment,—United Press.
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