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...meanwhile, France, Italy and Czechoslovakia had opposed as "premature" a backhanded suggestion by British Captain Anthony Eden that each Committeeman say whether his Government thought the problem of exportation of arms had yet been raised by events in the Far East. In other words: "How about declaring an arms embargo against Japan or China or both?" Excitedly in London the Chinese Legation at once protested that the Great Powers would be helping Japan if they declared an embargo against both countries, since Japan is already so much better armed than China...
...Glass banking bill; 4) the Wagner bill to increase R. F. C. relief loans; 5) farm relief, minus the "unworkable" Domestic Allotment plan; 6) the Robinson bill to repeal R. F. C. loan publicity; 7) expansion of Home Loan banks into a general mortgage discount system; 8) an arms embargo...
...last week Republican Chairman O'Brien of the Tariff Commission split with his President and his party when he said: "Our imports today are at a very low ebb. We're not being flooded by imports. Our relations abroad are already bad enough. If you want an embargo, go ahead and pass this bill." That no last-gasp Republican tariff bill should pass the House was the firm purpose of the Democratic majority...
...permit State branch banking. ¶ Heard Indiana's Robinson call France "a thorough ingrate." ¶ Passed a bill giving 350,000 bales of Farm Board cotton to the Red Cross. ¶ Passed without debate a resolution from the Foreign Relations Committee to give the President wider powers to embargo arms shipments. ¶ Adopted a resolution by Virginia's Glass to extend the currency expansion provision of the Glass-Steagall law one year...
...over R. F. C. relief for that State again last week. Irked at R. F. C. delays Governor Pinchot wired the President a protest against "its cruel, needless and unexplained refusal" to advance Pennsylvania $10,000,000 for relief, asked for a White House appointment "to end this senseless embargo." President Hoover replied that he has "no authority or right to direct the board to make specific loans," declared it was composed of "eminent, patriotic and sympathetic men," suggested the Governor study the law. Mr. Pinchot rapped back: "I cannot concede that you are powerless to help. . . . Your appointees would...