It is predicted here that President Roosevelt and Mr, Cordell Hull, Secretary of State, will consider the matter further during the Christmas break.
Only after a further period of officio] study will it be possible to say whether or not a further American Note will be considered necessary, What is giving Government circles most concern, it is understood. is the effect which the film of the incident will have on the American public. Advance reports say that the pictures taken by a cameraman refugee aboard the Panay and rushed here by trans-Pacific plane for showing at the Cinemas early next week are harrowing and of such a nature. as to be liable to excite popular indignation.
There is little prospect, however, that the Government could or would attempt to interfere with the showing of the film throughout the country and the effect which the pictures may have just when the gravity of the incident seems to be subsiding is believed to be arousing considerable
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