Senator Clark alleged that United States fighting plane requirements were being "'side-tracked" to facilitate the arming of France. He demanded publication of the records of the Senate Military Affairs Committee, including its secret session with President Roosevelt yesterday. The recent appearance of Mr. Joseph Kennedy, Ambassador in London and Mr. William Bullitt, Ambassador to France, before the Committee was an "outrageous attempt to stampede the committee." The Ambassadors, it was recalled, forecast a war in Europe before spring and emphasized the inadequacy of British and French air forces.
The Democratic leader in the Senate, Senator Alben W. Barclay, assailed from all sides by Angry and insistent Congressmen, demanded to know why the sale of planes to a Peaceful country would involve the United States in war. Taut with Chicago, Feb. 1.
Sharply attacking President Roose-volts "new foreign policies," Mr. Herbert Hoover, former President of the United States, asserted today that they would lead to "complete alienation of neutrality" and also Possibily to war.
The former President made his critical attack in an address before the Council of Foreign Relations following wide publicity given alleged remarks made by President Roosevelt to members of the Senate Military Affairs Committee yesterday. Mr. Hoover's speech was broadcast throughout the United States.
"Any form of direct or indirect coercion of nations... he said, "is a straight path to war itself.
"No husky nation will stand such pressures without bloody resistance. Those who think in terms of economic sanctions should also think in terms of war." emotion, Senator Hiram Johnson replied that "It's the question of secrecy! From small beginnings," he said, "may come a horrible ending. We are entitled to know where we are going."
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