HEARINGS

BEFORE THE

COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN AFFAIRS

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

SEVENTY-FIFTH CONGRESS

FIRST SESSION

ON

H. J. Res. 147

TO MAINTAIN THE NEUTRALITY OF THE UNITED STATES
IN THE EVENT OF WAR OR THREAT OF WAR
BETWEEN OR AMONG FOREIGN

NATIONS

AND

H. J. Res. 242

TO MAINTAIN THE NEUTRALITY OF THE UNITED STATES
IN THE EVENT OF WAR BETWEEN OR AMONG

FOREIGN NATIONS, AND FOR

OTHER PURPOSES

FEBRUARY 16, 17, 18, 19, AND 23, 1937

UNITED STATES
GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE

WASHINGTON : 1937

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COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN AFFAIRS

SAM D. McREYNOLDS, Tennessee, Chairman SOL BLOOM, New York

HAMILTON FISH, JR., New York
LUTHER A. JOHNSON, Texas

JOSEPH W. MARTIN, JR., Massachusetts
J. WALTER LAMBETH, North Carolina CHARLES A. EATON, New Jersey
FINLY H. GRAY, Indiana

GEORGE HOLDEN TINKHAM, Massachusetts
FRANK L. KLOEB, Ohio

LEO E, ALLEN, Illinois JOHN KEE, West Virginia

EDITH NOURSE ROGERS, Massachusetts
LAWRENCE E. IMHOFF, Ohio

GEORGE A. DONDERO, Michigan
OLIVER W. FREY, Pennsylvania
JAMES P. RICHARDS, South Carolina
THOMAS C. HENNINGS, JR., Missouri
JAMES A. SHANLEY, Connecticut
JOSEPH L. PFEIFER, New York
A. L. FORD, Mississippi
ED. V. IZAC, California
LEWIS M. LONG, Illinois
ROBERT L. MOUTON, Louisiana
ROBERT G. ALLEN, Pennsylvania

I. R. BARNES, Clerk
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