Washington, Aug. 21.
'Administration officials' today said they believed the President's speech at Kingston, Ontario, in which he promised to ald Canada if it were' attacked, would be an important in-nonce "on efforts to repeal the Tt was expected that the neutrality bloc would seize upon the speech as Jan instrument with which to re-open the entire subject. 'There were indications that the State Department would welcome another analysis of America's policy in the belief that most Americans would support the Administration's desire for' greater elasticity in foreign relations, especially in war zones.
Government circles widely believe that the reiterations of the President and the Secretary of State" that "splendid isolation" is untenable have convinced the American people at last that they must participate in major world developments whether" they desire it oF not.
Meanwhile, some quarters expressed the conviction that the Kingston speech's implied support of Great Britain's foreign policy would arouse fears of entanglement in a world conflict and might ultimately result In approval of the Ludlow resolution for a popular referendum before the. United States could enter upon war except in the case of invasion—United Press.
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