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Show GFASlERiCM UNITED STATES NOT EXPECTED TO PROHIBIT EXPORTATION OF ARMS AND AMN'JNITION. High Authorities in Berlin Hold That This Country is Within Its Rights in Permitting Trade in yVar h "Washington. The Gorni;uovern-mont, Gorni;uovern-mont, according to suitenn s- brfure the house foreign affairs o'mm.Utee, on Tuesday, docs not expect legislation legisla-tion in this country to prevent the exportation ex-portation of arms and ammunition to the European belligerents. Chnirnian 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 lie recently had talked with "high authorities'' in LUniin. who held Hunt 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 Earth oldt, 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 Eartholdt it' 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." |