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Show Landon Urges Session Continue During Crisis G. 0. P. Leaders Bar Politics at Neutrality Unity Conference Called by Roosevelt By LYLE C. WILSON WASHINGTON, Sept. 20 (UP) Governor Alf M. Landon, 1936 Republican presidential nominee, who will head the G. O. P. group at President Roosevelt's national unity conference, said today congress should remain in session during the crisis because the country has more confidence in combined legislative legisla-tive judgment than in that of any one man. Landon was among scores of political po-litical figures who arrived for the national unity conference today for the special session of congress which convenes tomorrow to hear Mr. Roosevelt's neutrality proposals. propos-als. The former governor refused to crfmmlt himself on repeal of the arms embargo. But associates said he favored scrapping all limitations limita-tions on export of American goods, including arms, ammunition and implements of war. on a strictly cash and carry basis. 'Polities Barred' Senate Republican leader Charles L. McNary, who also arrived today, to-day, told reporters that "politics is nut of the window." but announced. his opposition to the Roosevelt program pro-gram for repeal of the arms embargo. em-bargo. 'There Is a definite conviction In my part of the country that we will not set into the war," 1 -an don told a press conference today. "I think congress should remain In session because there is more confidence in the united judgment and the common opinion of the members of congress than in that of any one man." He was asked If any recent events had contributed to his belief be-lief that popular confidence was so distributed. He replied that he was not discussing that phase of the matter. T Support Roooevelt It appeared after the press conference con-ference that Landon would support Mr. Koosevelt s plan to repeal the arms embargo, but the governor carefully refrained from committing commit-ting himself, explaining that the situation was changing and that he had come here "to listen." On the question of duration of the special session of congress, he and the pn-sident do not agree. Mr. Roose-! Roose-! veil desires to limit the session to neutrality, which could be disposed of in six or eight weeks. House Republican Leader Joseph , W. Martin Jr. conferred with Lan- don. Landon said there had been a definite shift of opinion in the lat two weeks from belief that we would be drawn into a European Euro-pean war toward confidence that we could stay out of it. Colonel Frank Knox. .fVW Re-tcti!",'ii Re-tcti!",'ii ri ti CHIEFS GATHER IN CRISIS MEET (Coatlsssd rnm Pase Oesl publican vice presidential nominee, nomi-nee, arrived aboard the train that brought McNary and Landon and will attend this afternoon's White House conference. Views Clvea Senator Worth D. Clark (D-Idaho) (D-Idaho) reported that his mail showed a majority against repeal of the arms embargo, but personal contacts In the state Indicated a greater support of the president In his demands for repeal. Clark said he still opposed revision of the neutrality art. Senator Sherman Minton D, Ind. ). administration whip in the senate, said his state Indorsed repeal, re-peal, which he termed an essential step to halt totalitarian powers. A special session of congress convenes con-venes at noon tomorrow to hear Mr. Roosevelt deliver his neutrality message at 3 p. m., e. d. t. (12 noon. Salt Lake time). There was an atmosphere of growing confidence that the obstacles ob-stacles previously offered by the senate foreign relations committee to speedy action on neutrality were crumbling. The administration's primary purpose is to repeal the embargo munition and Implements of war to all belligerents. Among today's White House conferees con-ferees were Vice President John N. Garner,' the Democratic and Republican leaders of house and senate. Senator Joseph F. Byrnes CD., S. C.) and Representative Carl E. Mapea (R., Mich.). Mapes Is senior minority member of the house rules committee. |