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York asked her if she favored war
and she shot back this answer:
I'm in favor of preserving the
freedom and independence of Amer
lea without war if possible, with war
if necessary
She added that I'VE still have a
chance" to win this war without
fighting it by mobilizing our indus
trial and economic resources in aio
to Britain.
If Germany wins, Miss Thompson
said, there will be no frontal attack
or invasion" on the United States
but there will be a Nazi infiltration
in South America.
Even the strongest isolationists
favor defense of the Monroe Doc
trine, she said. which would mean
sending American boys to fight in
| Patagonia or Venezuela.
Brings Up Ireland.
BY what process, she inquired
should this country be willing to dc
that, and not help prevent an in
vasion of Ireland? She explained
later to Mr.. Fish she mentioned Ire
land, because it was the nearest point
Germany could use as a base in in
vasion of the British Isles.
Mrs. j. Borden Hartman, Min
lister to Norway, was the next witness
and said what she bad seen in Eu-
rope convinced her that the pend
ing bill should be passed.
Mr.. Bullitt said the story that he
had led France to count on United
States entry into the war was
invented, as we all know. by the
German propaganda machine and
spread by it and by dupes."
He said he would be glad if every
dispatch, communication or tele-
gram" that he had sent to the
State Department while he was
in Paris, could be published to-
morrow morning"
(Senator Wheeler, Democrat. of
Montana recently demanded that
the State Department give Con-
gress access to the files of mes
sages sent by both Mr.. Bullitt
and Joseph P. Kennedy, Ambas-
| sador to Great Britain in the
period before the two countries
wnt to war with Germany
Presents Daladier Letter.
Mr.. Bullitt himself made public
this copy of a letter he said was
written to President Roosevelt last
April by Eduard Daladier
Il have just read the allegations
of the Nazi government on the SUBJ
iect of the pretended declaration of
Ambassador Bullitt.
mo one can foresee to what limits
German propaganda will carry its
lies. Also, I feel I should tell you
that during the past two years I was
Prime Minister, Ambassador Bullitt
always said to me in case of Eu-
ropean conflict, France should make
the decision knowing that, according
to the opinion of Ambassador Bullitt,
the United States of America would
not enter the war. y"
When Mrs. Rogers raised the ques-
| ton of Mr.. Bullitt's attitude and
expressed opinions, Chairman Bloom
arose to read a letter of January %,
194l, to him from R. Walton Moore,
State Department counselor, con-
tanning part of letter from Mr..
Bullitt to Mr.. Moore, November 20,
1886, when the latter was Acting
Secretary of State.
French Hopes Set Forth.
The Bullitt letter said in part:
THE French, at the moment, are
looking desperately for friends
| There are a thousand signs (the
details of which I shall spare YOU'D
that they have decided to attempt
to develop the closest possible re-
lations with the United States, hav-
! ing in the back of their minds the
hope that when they become involved
in the war, which they regard as
inevitable, the United States finally
will come in on their side.
This may seem far-fetched tc
you, but I assure you it is true
If YOU should talk with the French
Ambassador, unquestionably he
would say to you that he knew the
United States would never again
send soldiers, ships and money to
Europe, but you would probably
be able to detect at the bottom of his
mind the thing which is very evil
dent here: to wit: The hope that
by a series of small steps we may
finally become involved as we be-
came involved in 1917.
L am confident that so long as
the President is in the White House
and the Secretary of State and your
self in the department, we will not
become involved; and I feel that il
is our duty not only to ourselves. but
also to the French to compel them
to realize that if they count on us
for the sort of support they got in
1917, they will not get it.
I'VE don't want to see France de-
stroyed. - We are sympathetic;
but we have to be adamant when ii
comes to refusing the only sort OF
support that, in the last analysis
| UIle french WdIlG
Thinks Bombings Can Win.
Responding to other questions, Mr.
Bullitt told the committee that he
we convinced that if the British
with the help of American plane
production, attain dominance over
Germany in the air, British bomb
mg would bring about collapse be-
hind the German lines. This, he
said, would insure a British victory
without the aid of American man.
power.
Picturing the German people a:
suffering greatly under wartime
privation and 100000 German
Catholics "who, while they have ts