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75TH CONGRESs HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES REPORT
3d Session I N£O. 1870
PREVENTING PROFITEERING IN TIME OF WAR AND TO EQUALIZE
THE BURDENS OF WAR AND THUS PROVIDE FOR THE NATIONAL
DEFENSE, AND PROMOTE PEACE
MARCH 1, 1938.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the
state of the Union and ordered to be printed
Mr. MAY, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the
following
REPORT
[To accompany H. R. 9604]
The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the bill
(H. R. 9604) to prevent profiteering in time of war and to equalize
the burdens of war and thus provide for the national defense, and
promote peace, having considered the same, submit the following
report thereon with the recommendation that it do pass:
A DECLARATION OF POLICIES
This bill is a statement of broad policies, and is deliberately in-
tended to avoid the mistake of seeking to legislate as to details so
far in advance of the possible outbreak of war. Certainly this bill
is the deliberate conclusion of the American people, after more than
19 years since the armistice of November 11, 1918. We are now pur-
posely cautioning friends of this legislation not to seek to write details
into this broad statement of policies, by way of amending the same.
All of us have our special and personal ideas and plans about how to
make application of the broad principles of price control, and for the
drafting of the man power and the commandeering of the material
resources of the Nation in the event of war, so that the burdens of
war may more equitably and justly be distributed among the citizens
of the Nation. Your committee feels it would be a serious mistake
to seek now to legislate as to details, perhaps many years in advance
of the outbreak of war, when the conditions, economic and social,
that may be prevailing at that time, cannot now be foreseen.
We believe that the Congress that will be sitting at any future
declaration of war will be pleased to have this deliberate expression
of policy upon the statute books, in the form of general legislation.](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.beal/betq0001&div=1&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)
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