Salt Lake Telegram | 1937-07-30 | Page 4 | U. S. to Avoid Orient Mixup

I). S. TO AVjOID ; ORIEHTMIXUP WASHINGTON. July to (UP) President Roosevelt today described the Chinese-Japanese hoetilitiaa in north China as very disturbing and said he intends to remain in or near the White House over the week-ead to keep in touch with the situation. situa-tion. ' A statement by Senator Key Pitt-man, Pitt-man, chairman of the foreign affairs af-fairs committee, was bclteved-to" have been inspired by the White house. It was interpreted as s strong; hint that President Roosevelt probably prob-ably will evade invocation of the neutrality law as long as possible. The statement by Senator Pitt-man Pitt-man (D., Nev.) rebuked those persons per-sons who "are impatiently and unreasonably" un-reasonably" urging President Roosevelt Roose-velt and Secretary of State Cordell Hull "to state what action will be taken under the neutrality act toward to-ward China and Japan." "In so serious a matter, while our government is making every effort ef-fort to bring about a cessation of the unfortunate situation and to protect the lives of our citizens in China through diplomatic conversations, conversa-tions, the impropriety and the danger dan-ger to the best interests of our country of public discussions by the president and the secretary of state are obvious," he said. "