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Show Cham berlain Denies Army Forced War Minister Out PRESIDENT'S PROPOSAL BRINGS SHARP ATTACK BY GEORGIA'S SENATOR George Charges Such Help Is 'Unneutral; . Demands Congress End Lending to Foreign Governments . . WASHINGTON, Jan. IS (UP) President Roosevejt suf- , gested today that congress consider nonmillUry loan to Finland and touched off a sharp senate debate In which Senator Walter F. George (D., Ga.) charged such aid was 'unneutral." ' ' Mr. Roosevelt suggested . that If congress wished to aid Finland It provide for loans to finance ncro-mllltary ncro-mllltary purchases through the export-Import bank and the Reconstruction Recon-struction Finance corporation. George attacked the auggestlon sharply, demanding that congress , cease "permitting Jess Jones or anyone else to make unneutral , loans to foreign governments." Ne Csiat ... . , Finnish officials here offered ne comment oa the president's letter, but an unofficial source suggested that Finland would here no need ; of bread "It they don't get some- thing to defend themselves with." '. Tm noi Mileetlng ah. -Jeaae," George "shouted, "but he hasn't." beea commissioned by the Amorl- oan people to decide the Important questions Involved la loan to Finland. Such- loan would con- " ttltute aa unneutral act under la- . tematlonal law. "There would be ne difference If we send an American battleship to Finland. If we want to do that all right; but let the congress say so and let's stop this miserable . program of whipping the devU around the stump." Jones, aa federal loan administrator, adminis-trator, haa Jurisdiction over the . export-Import bank, which would handle any financial program de- signed to aid Finland. Letter to Garner The senate row broke when the : president's letter to Vice President John N. Garner was ordered sent to the banking and currency committee com-mittee Instead of to the foreign ' relations committee. "If we lift the. restrictions on credit contained in our neutrality act we have destroyed the very heart of that law," George said. "It's a fatal step which you won't ' be able to retrace." Senator Tom- - Connelly D Texas) demanded that the letter be sent to the foreign- relations ' committee. He said that the letter MA nr., m n .. 1 A aravnaiai eat i uaiivs W4 VaVW It but a question of foreign policy." ' "If the measure proposes to, go no farther than to authorize loans ; to private corporations," .he said, '. "I shall have no objection, but if ; direct loans to foreign govern-' menu are going to be made under ; a thinly veneered cover I shall move to send the measure to the ' foreign relations committee." To Freeeat QoeetUa Senator Wallace H. White (R, Maine) said he believed the presl- , (CmtlniMS mi fui Twel . (ColMMW riv PRESIDENT ASKS LOAN TO FINNS CConU fro Pms Oh) dent's purpose In sending the communication com-munication to congress was "to present the foreign policy question and have us determine whether a loan to Finland would be wise." 1 no longer will vote for a single sin-gle dollar for Jesse Jones or anyone any-one else to be spent for the benefit ben-efit of any foreign power," George declared. "It was never dreamed that the Reconstruction Finance corporation would ever extend a single dime to a foreign government govern-ment Congress Is utterly abrogating abrogat-ing all Its duties and rights under the constitution." Banking and Currency Committee Commit-tee Chairman Robert F. Wagner D N. Y.) assured his colleagues that if the committee found that there was any question of foreign policy Involved la the proposed program, he would be glad to have the president's communication turned over to the foreign relation rela-tion committee. Gives View Democratic Leader Alben W. Berkley said the administration had no Intention of making a direct di-rect loan to the Finnish government govern-ment "The export-Import bank," he said, "has always mad It loan to corporation and there I no intention in-tention to depart from that practice." prac-tice." Mr. Roosevelt emphasized that us of the proposed credit for purchase pur-chase of arm or Implement of war would be forbidden. The president outlined his proposal pro-posal for Finnish aid In Identical letter to Garner and House Speaker William B. Bankhead. leans Warning He warned against creation of any precedent which might open the way to large credits to European Euro-pean nations, but said he did not believe hi proposal would "constitute "con-stitute or threaten any to-called 'involvement' In European wars." The president proposed that the loans to Finland be provided through the export-Import bank and the Reconstruction Finance corporation. The export-Import bank ha already advanced a $10,-000,000 $10,-000,000 credit , but " Finland ha called for only $3,000,000 of that sum. "There I without doubt In th United State a great desire for some action to assist rinUrut tn finance th purchase of agricultural agricul-tural surplus and manufactured products, not Including implement of war," said Mr. Roosevelt. VtmtMtd OppeettfM "There la at th same time undoubted un-doubted opposition to th creation of precedents which might lead to large credit to nations In Europe, Eu-rope, either belligerent or neutral. neu-tral. "No on desire a return to such a statu." |