The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-27

D1ll dI d ClOOCh OOOpAOAA VI OAA> mittee. Hull, first witness hearings on the measure, originally had been expected to testify at an open session.
 He was on the stand in open session for only Il minutes, how ever, before the committee, on mo- ton of Senators Pat Harrison, D.. Miss, and Hiram Johnson, R., Calf. went into executive session to re- ceive confidential state department reports on the international sltua- tion.
 Hull previously had told the com n7ittee that gradually increasing state of danger to this hemisphere and hence to this country" made necessary prompt action by the United States to aid other countries which are striving to resist the forces of invasion and aggression"
 The caucus room of the senate office building was less than half filled when Chairman Walter George called the committee to order at 10:06 a. m. Motion picture Klelg lights illuminated the scene as Hull began to talk.
 He referred briefly to the formal statement supporting the bill, which he previously read to the house for eign affairs committee. The state ment was inserted in the senate committee record, but was not read.
 All But 5 Present
 All but three of the committees 2S members were present. George announced that Senators Robert F. Wagner, D.. N. Y, and Robert R. Reynolds, D., N. C., were ill, and that Senator Henrik Shipstead, R., Min, was unable to attend.
 When the committee went into executive session. George announced that public hearings would be re- stunned at ? D. m., possibly with Hull still on the stand.
 The closed senate hearings coin cided with a secret session of the house foreign affairs committee to hear expert testimony from General George c. Marshall, U. s. Army chief of staff, Admiral Harold R.. Stark, chief of naval operations, and Major General George H. Brett, acting chief of the army air corps.
 Senators Burton K. Wheeler, D., Mont, and Gerald P. Nye, R., N. D.. non-interventionist opponents Of the administration measure, plan ned to introduce a resolution re- questilg President Roosevelt to de- mand that the European belliger- ents state their war aims, their peace conditions and "any and all secret treaties for disposition of ter ritorial spells"
 In . statement, Wheeler and Nye said the United States was entitled to know the aims of the belligerents since they charged, the threat of this country's involvement is i'm minent.
 Most historians and students agree" they said, that the treaty of Versailles provoked the present war. Before the United States goes any further along the road to war we should have assurances from our potential allies that American boys will not be ploughed under Euro- pean soil every 25 years"
 WheeIer's Charge
 Wheeler's charge earlier this month that the administration foreign policy was leading the coun- try into a war in which every fourth American boy would be plowed un- 1lo,. oo,,ea1 MT DoocayaIf ta raYoIIr that such a statement was dis honest, unpatriotic, dastardly, rot ten"
 Chairman Sol Bloom of the house committee, which completed public hearings Saturday, hopes to get the bill ready to report to the house this week.
 Chairman Walter F. George of the senate committee expects his hearings to last about two weeks the same as the house hearings. Be- sides Hull, Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox or Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau, Jr., may testify today. All testified be- fore the house committee and are not expected to read statements but just submit to questioning.
 Opponents of the bill on the com nlittee, headed by Sen. Hiram w. Johnson, R.. Cal, plan to seek more complete information from Morgen- thau about British resources and to explore the extent of administra- tion willingness to accept restric- tions to the bill.
 George said that to avoid dupli- cation several of the witnesses heard by the house committee - Col.