Washington, Jan. 10.
UTBREAK of a general European war before summer now appears inevitable, two key United States Ambassadors from Zurope told a secret joint session of the Senate and House of Representatives Military Affairs Committees here today. Members of the committees told the Ni nited Press the two Ambassadors, Mr. William Bullitt, Ambassador to France, and Mr. Joseph Kennedy, Ambassador to the Court of St. James', Britain, described an "utterly chaotic condition in Europe" and predicted there scant hopes of success for the appeasement plan of the British Prime Minister, Mr. Neville Chamberlain.
The two diplomats told the Senators and Representatives that France was unwilling to proceed further with the British appeasement policy, adding that despite the current British doctrine of "peace at any price," it appeared probable that Britain would be drawn into the war as naturally as France.
Questioned at great length, the Ambassadors answered all queries frankly, but refrained from mentioning American policy except to express the belief that the United States would not be drawn into the conflict immediately.
The Ambassadors stressed Germany's strong position with regard ie armaments and aircraft, which they attributed to Germany's copying and perfecting United States methods of mass production. One of the Ambassadors was said to have reported that lagging armament programmes in Britain and France were the chief factor in Britain's conciliatory policy toward the totalitarian star France, however, was represented as determined never again to step down before dictators' demands, depite the apparent inferiority of rench armaments. The attitude of France was said to have been fixed rgelv by the knowledge that in the vent of war, Britain would have no oMermative but to support her and military al e with- Russia would probably og the Soviets to join the Democracies against the totalitarian states,
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