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Daughter of late Chief Justice urges isolation of U.S. from foreign conflicts. Washington, D.C., April 21. Mrs. Helen Taft Manning, daughter of the late Chief Justice Taft, today urged the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to isolate the United States from foreign conflicts. She said she felt that provisions of the present Neutrality Act should be made mandatory, and that Congress should share with the president the responsibility of deciding whether there is or is not a state of war in any part of the world

Daughter of late Chief Justice urges isolation of U.S. from foreign co...

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Former Secretary of State fears Neutrality Act may aid attack on U.S. Washington, D.C., April 5. Testifying before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee today as the first witness on half dozen proposals to revise or repeal the Neutrality Act, former Secretary of State Henry L. Stimson warned that the present act is an instrument which may "Make the United States the next victim of attack." 4-5-39

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Crowd jams Senate hearing room to hear former Secretary of State criticize Neutrality Act. Washington, D.C., April 5. Before a well packed hearing room today former Secretary of State Henry L. Stimson warned the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that the present Neutrality Act is an instrument which may make the United States the next victim of attack. He was the first witness on a half a dozen proposals to revise or repeal the present Neutrality Act. 4-5-39

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Sage advice. Washington, D.C., Feb. 2. Senator Key Pittman, Veteran from Nevada and Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, discusses with the youthful Republican Senator Henry Cabor Lodge, of Massachusetts, the amendment he (lodge) has proposed to the Neutrality Act which would make the U.S. Neutral in fact as well in theory. Senator Lodge is also a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, 2/2/38

Sage advice. Washington, D.C., Feb. 2. Senator Key Pittman, Veteran fr...

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Neutrality Act of 1939 - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

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Against involvement of U.S. in sino-Japanese conflict. Washington, D.C., Nov. 23. Senator Gerald P. Nye, Republican of North Dakota and Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, (right) Republican of Massachusetts, are the latest to join the block of mandatory neutrality Senators insisting that President Roosevelt invoke the Neutrality Act to Keep the United States out of the Sino-Japanese conflict. Nye has demanded that United States stay out of such conferences as the Brussels Nine-Power Meetings, while Lodge has announced that he will sponsor amendments to [...] Neutrality Act providing for mandatory instead of [...]ent discretionary provisions. 11/23/37

Against involvement of U.S. in sino-Japanese conflict. Washington, D.C...

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Discuss America's foreign policy. Washington, D.C., April 15. In an effort to give impetus to the movement for revision of the Neutrality Act, an emergency conference of one hundred today assembled in Washington for a two-day discussion of American Foreign Policy. The meeting is being held under the auspices of the American Union for Concerted Pace Efforts. In the picture, left to right. James T. Shotwell, President, League of Nations Association - Reverend Roy M. Houghton, Congregational Church of New Haven, Conn., and Ernest Wilkins, President of Oberlin College, 4-15-39

Discuss America's foreign policy. Washington, D.C., April 15. In an ef...

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Senate to inaugurate hearings on Neutrality Act. Washington, D.C., March 29. Senator Key Pittman, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, as he told reporters today that open hearings will begin on April 5 on proposals to repeal, modify, or strengthen the Neutrality Act. At the same time he announced that the appointment of himself, Senator William E. Borah and Senator Walter F. George to handle the schedule of witnesses and "Do everything that can be done to expedite the hearings." 3-29- 39

Senate to inaugurate hearings on Neutrality Act. Washington, D.C., Mar...

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Neutrality Act of 1939 - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

State Department confers privately with House on amendments to Neutrality Act. Washington, D.C., June 5. Meeting today in executive session, the House Foreign Affairs Committee conferred with officials from the State Department on proposed amendments to the present neutrality laws. Left to right, seated: R. Walton Moore, State Department counselor, Chairman Sol Bloom, Green H. Hackworth, State Dept. legal advisor; standing: Carlton Savage, assistant to Moore, and Rep. Charles A. Eaton of N.J.

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Woman columnist advocates repeal of Neutrality Act to allow U.S. freedom of policy. Washington, D.C., April 26. Staging her second appearance before Senate Committees within a week, Dorothy Thompson, columnist, sat down before Foreign Affairs Chairman Key Pittman and told him and members that neutrality laws should be repealed to allow the country to be free in forming policies in foreign affairs. 'I don't think that the existing neutrality legislation is neutral,' she said, and added that she doesn't believe that existing legislation would have kept us out of the last war, a war which she termed as still being fought

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Columbia professor endorses Thomas Amendment. Washington, D.C., May 8. Dr. James T. Shotwell, Columbia University Professor, witness before the Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs, today endorsed the Thomas Amendment of the Neutrality Act which would permit designation of the aggressor nations and application of economic pressure. He said, 'the time for the determination of policy is now; it should not be left for emergency legislation in the hour of crisis'

Columbia professor endorses Thomas Amendment. Washington, D.C., May 8....

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Against involvement of U.S. in sino-Japanese conflict. Washington, D.C., Nov. 23. Senator Gerald P. Nye, Republican of North Dakota and Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, (right) Republican of Massachusetts, are the latest to join the block of mandatory neutrality Senators insisting that President Roosevelt invoke the Neutrality Act to Keep the United States out of the Sino-Japanese conflict. Nye has demanded that United States stay out of such conferences as the Brussels Nine-Power Meetings, while Lodge has announced that he will sponsor amendments to ... Neutrality Act providing for mandatory instead of ...ent discretionary provisions. 112337

Against involvement of U.S. in sino-Japanese conflict. Washington, D.C...

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Former Secretary of State fears Neutrality Act may aid attack on U.S. Washington, D.C., April 5. Testifying before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee today as the first witness on half dozen proposals to revise or repeal the Neutrality Act, former Secretary of State Henry L. Stimson warned that the present act is an instrument which may "Make the United States the next victim of attack." 4-5-39

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Columbia professor endorses Thomas Amendment. Washington, D.C., May 8. Dr. James T. Shotwell, Columbia University Professor, witness before the Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs, today endorsed the Thomas Amendment of the Neutrality Act which would permit designation of the aggressor nations and application of economic pressure. He said, 'the time for the determination of policy is now; it should not be left for emergency legislation in the hour of crisis'

Columbia professor endorses Thomas Amendment. Washington, D.C., May 8....

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Sage advice. Washington, D.C., Feb. 2. Senator Key Pittman, Veteran from Nevada and Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, discusses with the youthful Republican Senator Henry Cabor Lodge, of Massachusetts, the amendment he (lodge) has proposed to the Neutrality Act which would make the U.S. Neutral in fact as well in theory. Senator Lodge is also a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, 2238

Sage advice. Washington, D.C., Feb. 2. Senator Key Pittman, Veteran fr...

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Woman columnist advocates repeal of Neutrality Act to allow U.S. freedom of policy. Washington, D.C., April 26. Staging her second appearance before Senate Committees within a week, Dorothy Thompson, columnist, sat down before Foreign Affairs Chairman Key Pittman and told him and members that neutrality laws should be repealed to allow the country to be free in forming policies in foreign affairs. 'I don't think that the existing neutrality legislation is neutral,' she said, and added that she doesn't believe that existing legislation would have kept us out of the last war, a war which she termed as still being fought

Woman columnist advocates repeal of Neutrality Act to allow U.S. freed...

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Crowd jams Senate hearing room to hear former Secretary of State criticize Neutrality Act. Washington, D.C., April 5. Before a well packed hearing room today former Secretary of State Henry L. Stimson warned the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that the present Neutrality Act is an instrument which may make the United States the next victim of attack. He was the first witness on a half a dozen proposals to revise or repeal the present Neutrality Act. 4-5-39

Crowd jams Senate hearing room to hear former Secretary of State criti...

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