The Archive · 1938

Will US. Be Involved?

American Ambassador to France Makes Significant Declaration; Franco-U.S. Unity of Ideals Stressed

Bordeaux, Sept. 4.

66)\JO human being could undertake to state or prophesy whether or not the United States would become wolved in a war if it should break out again in Europe," Mr. William C, Bullitt, United States Ambassador to France, exclaimed here today during an address on the occasion of the inauguration of a huge monument erected at Pointe De Grave, at the mouth of the river La Gironde, commemorating the landing of the American expeditionary force in 1917.

Reealling that General: Lafayette and his companions sailed from the same spot on March 26, 1777, to join the American armies fighting for their'independence, Mr. Bullitt said that the deep and confident friendship between France and the United States was based on mu devotion to the ideals of libert democracy, and peace, At this moment. when the work! 1 slay with donate erie, the coutel Byung which makes pesiole the Stumete'claboraton between the

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