LETTERS SENT TO SENATORS ON BILL

Twelve "doubtful" senators received a letter yesterday from the Committee Against Military Intervention urging the precise limitation and definition of the powers granted by the Lend-Lease Bill.

The letter expressed the hope that the senators would prevent the "wise policy of material assistance to anti-Axis forces from becoming the disastrous policy of military intervention and domestic dictatorship."

Should the letter's provisions not be passed, the committee urged the senators to whom they addressed their appeal to vote against the pending bill and strive for direct grants of funds to the anti-Axis governments.

Letter Scores Executive

Included were the suggestions that the senators direct their energies towards securing amendments to the Lend-Lease Bill which would prohibit the employment of the American army or navy outside this hemisphere or the territories of the United States.

The committee called for clarification of such omnibus phrases as "notwithstanding the provisions of any other laws, or otherwise dispose of," "any other direct or indirect benefit," and other phrases of a similar nature which are included in the bill.

Executive privileges which the bill would grant to the president were particularly scored by the letter, which called for a "straightforward inelastic definition" of funds to be made available to him.

The letter was sent to Senators Adams, Brewster, Burton, Butler, Bunker, Davis, Downery, Gerry, Furney, Thomas (Okia.), McNary, and Smith (S.C.)