State Department officials said the United States must decide immediately whether to "continue and strengthen moral support of the democracies or attempt, a policy of isolation" The State Department campaign links in closely with strained American-Japanese relations and increasing friction between the United States and Germany, Washington observers believed.
Administration leaders here have made no effort to conceal the belief that Japan, Germany and Italy have been largely responsible for the widespread disregard for the sanctity of treaties and international lawlessness.
Some observers believed the next session of Congress would reconsider ihe entire scope of American foreign policy. Mr. Hull said today that he would welcome such a study.
State Department officials indicated) that the failure of the totalitarian states to observe treaties or live up to their word left the United States only two choices in planning future foreign policies. The first, which the Administration is believed to oppose, would involve the abandonment of American interests abroad and the adoption of a strict policy of isolation. State Department officials regard an isolationist policy impractical. The only other choice, it was indicated, is a firm stand with Britain and France against aggressor nations.—United Pre:
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