Senator Hiram Johnson, Republican of California,, meanwhile announced that he would support the Administration's $1,000.000,000 naval programme in order to assure that the United States would be "kept American for Americans." He attacked the confusion of American foreign policy. Mr. Hull, he said, had intended to parallel the action of other democracies moving in the same direction as the United States but then Mr. Neville Chamberlain, British Prime Minister, went off en a tangent to deal with dictators."
"Idealism and the good neighbour policy went out the window in Britain when it came to a test," he said.
Senator J. Hamilton Lewis, Democrat.of Illinois, said the European conflict would eventually unite Germany, Italy and Japan and enable Japan to gain complete dominance in the Orient. He said the British attitude regarding the recently occupied Canton and Enderbury Islands in the south Pacific indicated that Britain had joined the movement to permit Japan complete dominance in the Far East. He denounced the reported move for joint Anglo-American control of the strategic islands,
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