Washington, May 25, Thirteen members of the powerful Senate Foreign Relations Committee would support repeal of the Neutrality Act should the Administration e, propose such a change, while ten members would oppose its repeal, a poll of the committee revealed yesterday The majority of the committee has not decided formally what stand uld be taken, but private express sions indicated that the same ratio in voting which defeated on April 30 ihe resolution prohibiting use of convoys to Britain would prevail in a vote on repeal of the Neutrality Act.
None of the 23 members of the committee said any official word had been received that President Roosevelt intends to ask for repeal of the Act. They opined, however, that Mr. Henry L, Stimson, Secretary of War, and Col, Frank Knox, Secretary of Navy, would not have' suggested repeal of the act in recent speeches without official sanction by the White House,—United Press,
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