The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-15

ed, I'll we are IO lehIh any bAAAAA6 from the disastrous experience of those countries which have been swallowed up and are now under the heel of an aggressor."
 Hull said that the essence of the problem is laid to those countries that are resisting this tidal wave of world conquest"
 "If the House is on fire there is not much to be gained by discussing with someone what particular well the water is to be drawn from to uuench the fire" he said.
 T could not in good conscience advice my fellow citizens to follow the suicidal course of Holland, Bel gium, and those other peoples that followed the rules of neutrality to their everlasting destruction"
 British Maximum Aid
 Hull said the pending bill would offer Britain maximum material aid. enable us to perfect American defenseS, and above all will enable us to do all these things in the speedist possible manner, and, over whelmingly, speed is our greatest need today"
 The best American policy ill the present world crisis was defined by Hull as:
 Not merely to arm at home and wait for the invader to cross bound- aries, but if and when we see an7 other country resisting some move ment, we would certainly not com- mand the disrespect of the invader by aiding those who are right ill the line between us and the in- vader and Irsisting to the utmost" "
 Rep. Hamilton Fish. R., N. Y., asked Hull if he would have any objection if the committee "rewrote this ball to bring it within the constitution"
 "T'd want to say something about what the constitution provides y Hull replied.
 Fish said he disagreed with only one part of Hull's staetment-that Germany could easily cross the At lantic.
 Our Navy Far Greater
 Isn't it a fact" Fish asked, that our navy is six times greater than the German navy. What would it be doing if Germany tried to come acroSS?"
 Any power that got control of the seas" replied Hull, lon move ment of world conquest-lacking 40 per cent of enough to eat and 50 per cent of raw materials-Would attack"
 Fish noted that Hull had not mentioned the Monroe Doctrine. Hull interrupted dryly:
 That's the only law left that hasn't been violated"
 Rep. Charles A. Eaton, R.. N. J., observed that some people regard the war as a conflict between Eng land and Germany.
 If England wins,' Eaton said, We don't need a defense program, do we?"
 No" Hull said.
 And if Germany, Italy and Japan win We vii lneed it and will have no one to help us?"
 T agree" Hull said.
 He added that teh dictators "have sufficiently put us on our guard so that we cannot complain if they should mistreat us sometime in the future"
 Eaton said his personal view is that i've must do everything pos sible to help England to save the world from totalitarian tyranny"
 Its a matters of speed, and speed and more speed in the most practi- cal way" Hull said.
 He said he would leave a techni- cal discussion of the measure to departments more directly con- cerned and that he would discuss the growth of aggression and tyr annical rule" abroad.
 Poll FavOrS Bill
 AS Hull testified, an unofficial poll of the 23-Inan senate foreign rela- tions committee revealed that the administration now has at least a one-vote margin there-with 12 members favoring the bill, six op- posed, and five undecided. The senate committee soon will follow the house group ill holding hear fags on the measure.
 Hull summarized the conduct of our foreign relations" as having been directed at the following ob- jectives:
 1. Peace and security for the United States with advocacy of peace and limitation and reduction of armament as universal interna- tional objectiveS;
 "2. Support for order, justice, and morality and the principle of non- intervention;
 8. Restoration and cultivation of sound economic methods and rela- tions, based on equality of treat ment;
 A. Development ill the promotion of these objecitves, of the fullest practicable measure of international cooperation;
 "5. Promotion of the security, sol- idarity and the general welfare of the western hemisphere"
 Observance and advocacy of those basic principles. the secretary said, became increasingly important "as three nations, one after another, made abundantly clear by word and by deed, their determination to repudiate and destroy the very foundations of a civilized world or der under law"
 He said these three nations Japan, Italy and Germany-had en- tered upon the road of armed con- quest, of subjugation of other na- tions, and of tyrannical rule over their victims"
 Roosevelt Enraged
 The poll was revealed as the House foreign affairs committee be- gins public hearings on the bill against a background of charges and counter charges between Presi- dent Roosevelt and Senator Burton K. Wheeler, D., Mont, leader of the opposition.
 Secretary of State Cordell Hull was the first witness. Some expected hiS 1lnassilminp oDiet Ynanner tn