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Show HOUSE BLOCKS WARJEBATE WASHINGTON. Nov. 17 UP Tht house today refused to consider! immediately a resolution calling on President Roosevelt to declare that a state of war exists between Japan and China and Invoke the neutrality act. Representative Sam D. McReyn-olds McReyn-olds D, Tennessee, chairman of the house foreign affairs committee, commit-tee, objected to debate on the measure, mea-sure, introduced by Representative Harry Sauthoff (P), Wisconsin. Sauthoff cited President Roosevelt's Roose-velt's Armistice day remarks of 1935 describing the purpose of the act: "We are acting to simplify definitions defi-nitions and facta by calling war. war, when armed invasion and a , resulting killing of human beings I takes place ' The resolution declared the president presi-dent had signed the neutrality act and cited the Brussels conference at which the United States is represented rep-resented as proof a state of war exists ex-ists In the Far East. |