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Never since 1917 was such a proposal more out of keeping with U. S. temper than last week. Hurry up calls from Washington sent Ambassadors Joseph P. Kennedy (London) and William Bullitt (Paris) hustling back to the White House from vacations in Florida. Ambassadors rarely appear before Congressional committees, and then only before foreign affairs committees. But Messrs. Kennedy & Bullitt were promptly closeted in "secret" session with a joint meeting of the House & Senate Military Affairs Committees...
...Secret" Congressional hearings are seldom secret long. Duly published were reports that Messrs. Kennedy & Bullitt foresaw war in Europe within the year, that Germany has 6,500 new planes, 3,000 usable old ones, and can build 1,200 a month. Explaining that French resistance to Mussolini held the chief threat of war, Mr. Kennedy was reported as saying that in order to appease Adolf Hitler the British would even allow him to put a base in Canada (which Franklin Roosevelt swears to defend). This Mr. Kennedy quickly denied. A story he did not deny was that much...
...going to fight?" snorted North Carolina's irrepressible Senator Robert Rice Reynolds, doubting that France and England would risk a war. But many of his colleagues were impressed by the Kennedy-Bullitt stories, and Congress was aquiver by the time Franklin Roosevelt sent up his message telling why and for what he wanted more Defense money, besides the $510,000,000 for the Army and $720,000,000 for the Navy provided by the regular budget...
Frederick Thompson once forced his way into the hospital with a batch of wounded. His activities also involved a skirmish with U. S. Ambassador William Bullitt. Because U. S. passports for ordinary travelers are not valid in Spain, U. S. citizens who wanted to fight there had to get in and out as best they could. On the way home they often showed up in Paris without passports. Mr. Thompson had to pull many a wire before Ambassador Bullitt would treat them as extraordinary travelers, entitled to re-enter the U. S. without credentials...
Franklin Roosevelt last week conducted a school for ambassadors. Home for a seminar on U. S. foreign policy were Hugh Wilson (Berlin), William Phillips (Rome) and William Bullitt (Paris). On the way from London was Joe Kennedy (nominally on his way to Florida to spend Christmas with his son Jack), and called home from China was Nelson Johnson, who by traveling his fastest can reach Washington next month...