It is not for us to advise the British Government. What we can do is to offer such facilities as the Government and people of Great Britain are ready to use. The safest wayindeed. the only reasonably safe wayof getting refugee children out of Great Britain is to take them on American ships. lighted at night and beflagged by day so as to make a mistake as to their identity impossible. Furthermore. it has been stated that no amendment to the Neutrality Act is necessary that the socalled mercy ships may proceed to a belligerent nation to evacuate refugee chil-. dren. I have examined carefully the Neutrality Act and come to no such conclusion. It is argued in some quarters that the Neutrality Act gives the President the right to define a combat area and that it would be unlawful "except under such rules and regulations as he may prescribe. for any citizens of the United States or any American vessel to proceed into- or through any such combat arep-"