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Dorothy Detzer backs NYE-Clark-Bone Bill on neutrality aid rejects Pittman's Washington, D.C., May 4. Dorothy Detzer, representing the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom was a witness this afternoon before the Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs. She endorsed a neutrality bill by Senators NYE, Clark of Missouri, and Bone which removes presidential discretion from neutrality legislation. She said her organization could not endorse the Pittman cash-and-carry neutrality plan. She defined neutrality as '...abstention from hostile acts...and abstention from changing the policies of the government for the benefit of one belligerent or the other after the war has begun'

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