Evening star., 1941-01-25
By the Associated Press.

The prepared text Of the state
ment made today to the House For
eign Affairs Committee by William
c. Bullitt, former Ambassador to
France, follows:
/. We are determined to main
tain the independence of the United
States and our Government of the
people, by the people and for the
people.
2. We hate war Therefore, we
desire to protect our country and
our liberties without going to war.
3. Germany has drawn Italy and
Japan into league directed against
us and other free nations by a
treaty signed in Berlin on Septem-
Der ~, 1910.
4. We cannot appease Germany.
1t is impossible to appease the un-
appeasable. And the Western
Hemisphere is the juiciest morsel
before the dictators.
5. The earth has been so contracted
by the airplane that for the first
time in our history. the war ma
chimes of Europe can reach the
Western Hemisphere in a few hours
Must Control Oceans.
6. The Atlantic and Pacific Oceans
remain formidable obstacles to in
vasion of the Americas so long as
both are controlled either by the
American Navy or by the navy Of a
power friendly to lis.
Z. We have one-ocean Navy and
shall not have a two-ocean Navy
before 1946.
8. So long as the British Navy
continues to hold the Germans and
Italians on the other side Of the
Atlantic. while our fleet watches in
the Pacific, we have and shall have
the practical equivalent of a two
ocean Navy.
9. If the British Navy should be
eliminated, we would still have
one-ocean Navy but we should have
two oceans to defend.
10. A one-ocean Navy cannot cover
two oceans.
II. Without the British Navy, we
could not protect both the Pacific
Coast and the Atlantic Coast of the
Western Hemisphere. We could not
block both the front door and the
back door of our national home.
~. An ocean without fleet is not
a defense but broad highway for
invasion.
Totalitarian Elements.
Is. There are strong totalitarian
elements in many states of South
America.
IA. The elimination of the British
navy and control of either the At
lantic or the Pacific by a totalitarian
navy would be the signal for totali-
tartan government to be installed in
one or more states of Latin Amer
lea. The movement of totalitarian
control toward the Panama Canal
would be rapid.
Is. The experience of cities in
England has shown that it is i'm
possible to prevent bombardment Of
the Panama Canal by planes based
on the northern portion of South
America, or on Central America, or
on aircraft carriers.
16 If the Panama Canal should
be closed by bombardment from the
air or sabotage, our one-ocean
Navy would be fixed in one ocean
and the other ocean would become
pathway for invasion.
II. We are not prepared today to
meet an attack by the totalitarian
states that are leagued against us
We must buy time in which to pre-
pare.
18. We can buy that time only by
making certain that the British
fleet will continue to hold the totali-
tartan forces in Europe while our
fleet watches in the Pacific.
10. If we should permit conquest
of the British Isles, the officers and
men of the British Navy would be
threatened with the starvation of
the entire population of Great Brit
ain if they should continue to hold
the Atlantic for us. 1t is improbable
that they could or would do so for
long.
Invasion Seems Certain.
20. Should the British Navy be
eliminated and should the Panama
Canal be blocked before we are
prepared, invasion of the Western
Hemisphere would be almost cer-
tain. 1t is entirely certain that the
shipbuilding facilities in the hands
of the totalitarian dictators would
be at least four times as great as
our shipbuilding facilities, and
wtat we had planned to be two
ocean navy would turn out to be
only one-ocean navy after all.
More than 80 per cent of the hu-
man race would be controlled by
the dictators and be organized both
militarily and economically against
us. A Japanese iron ring around
Asia and Australasia and a German
iron ring around Africa and Europe
including Great Britain and Ireland
would cut us of from trade with sc
great a portion of the earth, that
vein a mutilated stump of the
Western Hemisphere would be
thrown into economic disorder.
The standard of living of ever
the poorest American would be
gravely reduced. And we should
have to try to support with our Grip.
pied economic system armaments
colossal enough to resist the whole
world. We should have to organize
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