Evening star. [volume], March 03, 1936, Page B-4, Image 24

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3 FORCES DEFEAT
“NEW NEUTRALTT
Business, Italo - Americans
and Senator Thomas
Are Credited.
This is the sixth of a series of
articles by Mr. Allinson on the
“new neutrality" policy of the
United States.
BY BRENT DOW ALLINSON.
Among Influences held to be chiefly
responsible for delay or defeat of the
full program of insurance against war,
devised by advocates of the new Amer
ican neutrality, three are mo6t con
spicuous.
These are: First, certain large in
dustrial and exporting interests, prin
cipally the great oil companies, the
cteel, automobile and aviation corpo
rations. whose Immediate commercial
opportunities and profits would be
curtailed if the sale and shipment to
belligerents of materials useful or
essential in war were prohibited, or
even if American exports to belliger
ent countries were held down to
normal, peacetime proportions, as pro
posed by the administration, the
Munitions Committee, and many other
advocates of 100 per cent American
neutrality.
Second, by a dozen or more pro
Fascist, Italian-American societies,,
highly vocal in a few large cities, such
as New York. Chicago and Greater
Boston, and in certain other congres
eional districts.
Thomas Address Influential.
Third, by an impressive address,
lasting more than four hours, delivered
to the Senate by Prof. Elbert D.
Thomas of the University of Utah,
now in absentia by reason of his serv
ice as United States Senator.
Certainly, also, the stentorian oppo
sition of Senators Hiram Johnson of
California and Tom Connally of Texas
—large oil-producing States—had
something to do with it. Moreover,
the administration, itself, embarrassed
by pro-League sympathy and anti
League sentiment, surrendered too
easily, it is alleged, when, with a little
greater display of political energy and
moral conviction, it might have car
ried the program of reformist neutral
ity to complete victory.
As for Italian-American opposition.
It was manifested by the dispatch of
similarly-phrased telegrams and reso
lutions of protest to numerous Con
gressmen. and by the formation of
an organization entitled variously
"League for American Neutrality,”
and ‘'The American Anti-Neutrality
Association,” which for a time estab
lished headquarters at a large Wash
ington hotel, under the leadership of
Mr. Andrew A. Cassassa, ex-mayor
of the city of Revere. Mass.
Italian Protesters.
The principal Italian organizations
from whom protests were received
were the following: The American
Italian Union of New York City, for
whom Signor U. V. d’Annunzio, son
of the celebrated Italian poet and
novelist, and active in Fascist propa
ganda, was the principal spokesman:
the Italian Chamber of Commerce of
New York City, Ercole H. LocateUi,
president; the Pugliese Society, the
American Friends of Italy, Utica,
N. Y.; the Order of the Sons of Italy
In America (Grand Lodge of the
State of New York). The views of
these organisations are of interest,
and may be gathered from the fol
lowing quotations from their tele
grams of protest:
Said the American Friends of Italy:
“We protest against any legislation
which will give our President power
to place any embargo on oil or any key
materials; and against a construction
of neutrality not In seem'd with Its
generally accepted meaning; and
against any policy which radically
changes the rules of neutrality to the
disadvantage of any one belligerent.’’
Said the Italian Chamber of Com
merce:
“No law should be enacted, which
in whole or in any of Its parts hinders,
the natural flow of trade between the
United States and any nation of the
world, whether at war or not. -Any
provision adopted to preserve neu
trality should limit the embargo to
arms, ammunition and Implements
exclusively prepared for war pur
poses, and not including any ma
terials required for the needs of the
civil population, of agriculture, Indus
try or transportation.”
Propaganda Evidence Seen.
Said the American-Italian Union:
“• * • • denounces the Nye-Clark
Maverick bills as reflecting evidences
of European propaganda designed to
enlist American aid on the side of
the League of Nations—a vassal or
gan subservient to British Interests—
designed to maintain the European
balance of power through application
of League sanctions,” “• • • The only
safe and realistically neutral policy
for this Nation to attempt is a policy
based upon sound and accepted In
ternational law, existing since the days
of Orotlus and proved beneficial to
the welfare of the American people
—vis., to refuse to deal in munitions
with any and all nations at war, but
to trade in other commodities freely
with all nations, whether at war or at
peace, provided that In our trading
we treat both sides equally and alike.”
These organisations and their rep
resentatives, therefore, vigorously op
pose any extension of the principles
of the new neutrality act, passed last
August, to the general field of muni
tions of war, although they assented
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and effective neutrality measure, Con
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