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Dean Landis yesterday urged the repeal of the arms embargo as "the best course for America's national interest...
Former President A. Lawrence Lowell entered the neutrality debate at Washington yesterday, urging immediate repeal of the "detrimental" arms embargo in a letter which was published in the Congressional Record...
...Lowell's letter asserted that the embargo is "practically hostile to the belligerents that control the sea" and further stated that no neutrality legislation could "absolutely prevent the possibility of events that might cause our citixens to regard war as less evil than the alternative presented by some belligerent...
...Tacitly rebuked William Green for pledging A. F. of L. to support the President's neutrality program. The convention approved cash & carry sales to warring nations, stayed neutral on repeal of the arms embargo...
...small plate-making Lukens Steel, which has already upped prices $5 a ton, steelmen formed a committee of 1,000 scrap-buyers, resumed their 1937 agitation for stopping tonnage export of U. S. scrap (favored by American Iron and Steel Institute President Ernest Weir, who also favors the embargo on munitions exports). There is a genuine scrap squeeze, mostly because Japan, England and other foreign buyers have taken 16,700,100 tons of scrap out of the U. S. in the last decade...