76th Congress
1st Session              S. RES. 166
 
 
               IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
                                
                         JULY 18, 1939
Mr. VANDENBERG submitted the following resolution; which was referred to
               the Committee on Foreign Relations
 
 
                           RESOLUTION
 
1    Resolved, That it is the sense of the Senate that the
 
2 Government of the United States should give Japan the
 
3 six months' notice required by the treaty of 1911 for its
 
4 abrogation so thatt the Government of the United States may
 
5 be free to deal with Japan in the formulation of a new
 
6 treaty and in the protection of American interests as new
 
7 necessities may require; and be it further
 
8    Resolved, That it is the sense of the Senate that the
 
9 Government of the United States should ask that the Con-
 
10 ference of Brussels of 1937, now in recess, should be reas-
 
11 sembled to determine, pursuant to the express provisions of
 
12 the Nine-Power Treaty of  Washington of 1922, whether
 
13 Japan has been and is violating said treaty and to recom-
 
14 mend the appropriate course to be pursued by the signatories.