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Show GERMANS DO NOT BLlEJpCnNS UNITED STATES NOT EXPECTED TO PROHIBIT EXPORTATION OF ARMS AND AMMUNITION. High Authorities in Berlin Hold That This Country is Within Its Rights in Permitting Trade in War Supplies. Washington. The German government, govern-ment, according to statements before the house foreign affairs committee, on Tuesday, does not expect legislation legisla-tion in this country to prevent the exportation ex-portation of arms and ammunition to the European belligerents. Chairman Flood of the committee said he understood that the German government through its foreign office had taken this position, and Representative Represen-tative Metz of New York told the committee com-mittee he recently had talked with "high authorities" in Berlin, who held that the United States was within its rights under international law in permitting per-mitting trade in war supplies with the belligerents. Chairman Flood made his statement in the course of an argument with Representative Bartholdt, who was before be-fore the committee advocating his resolution res-olution which would empower the president pres-ident to prohibit such exportation. He asked Representative Bartholdt if this attitude on the part of the German Ger-man government would alter his conviction con-viction as to the necessity for the proposed legislation. The latter replied re-plied that his opposition to the traffic traf-fic in war supplies was not controlled by the German government, but was based on a sense of "international morality." |