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Show STRONGLY PROTEST" ACTION OF ALLIES UNITED STATES WILL OBJECT TO RESTRICTIONS IMPOSED ON NEUTRAL COMMERCE. British Action Has No Precedent in Law or History, and Suporters of ; Administration Believe Vigorous Vigor-ous Protest Should be Made. J Washington. President YVi'.son indicated in-dicated 10 callers on Tuesday that a strong protest woyld be made by the United States government against the action or Great Britain and her allies in subjecting neutral commerce to the numerous restrictions imposed on it by the British order in council, just issued. Senator Walsh of Montana, an authority au-thority on international law and one of the administration's spokesmen in defense of the legal side of the ship purchase bill, talkeda t length wiih the president Tuesday night about the situation. He had 'come to the White House on another subject, but found the situation produced by the commercial com-mercial blockade uppermost in the president's mind. As he left the White House Senator Walsh said the British action had no precedent in law or history and that an unusually vigorous protest should be made against it. He spoke of the general regret among senators now that :before the last congress adjourned ad-journed power had not been given tc the president to declare an embargo on exports from the United States tc the belligerents. He added, however, he had no idea that the president would call any extra session for that purpose. Officials who studied the British order or-der in council in the text as transmitted trans-mitted by Ambassador Page and the British embassy, found differences in it from the version in the cable dispatches, dis-patches, but would not indicate whether they were of an important character. Their displeasure at the contents of the order was evident and they made no effort to conceal their disappointment at its failure to give American commerce relief1 from interference inter-ference while in transit to neutral countries. |