The Archive · 1938

Officials Outline the Choice

State Department officials said the United States must decide immediate-whether to "continue and strengthen moral support of the democra-dox or attempt a policy of isolation" The State Department cam paign links in closely with strained Amieriean-Japanese relations and in= creasing friction between the United States and Germany, Washington observers believed.

Administration Jeaders here have} made no effort to conceal the belief that Japan, Germany and Italy have! been largely responsible for the wid spread disregard for the sanctity of treaties and international lawlessness, Some observers believed the next session of Congress would reconsider the entire scope of American foreign policy, Mr. Hull said today that would welcome such a study.

State Department officials indicated that the failure of the totaliteriary 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 isola~ tion. State Department omelals gard an isolationist policy impractical, The only other choice, it was. in dicated, ig a firm stand' with Britain and France against aggressor nations.

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