Paris, July 20.
Competent quarters in Berlin have no doubts that the United States, despite present party divergencies, would side with the Democracies if a war were to break out in Europe, the Berlin correspondent of "Lo Journal" stated today.
The U.S would be stirred into action, the writer, added, following the press campaign and the indignant attitude of public opinion which any air bombings over the, larger cities in France and Britain would not fail to provoke.
"The impression is gathered here that the German authorities have received, from their diplomatic and consular representatives in the United States, reports which leave no doubt in their minds əs to the sides which that country would take in a European conflict," the correspondent concluded—Havas, Hankow, July 20. of 18 and 55, lative Council this afternoon.
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