"There is a definite effort by propaganda te teach our people that we cannot stay out of war." Senator Johnson said. He said the United States would never be able to use its influence for peace if it took an unneutral attitude toward world problems at present.
Referring to testimony presented before the Committee earlier by Dr.
Charles C. Tansill, Professor of American History at Fordham University, Senator Johnson said United States narticioation in the Great War had been censed by un-neutral acts and commitments made before America's entrance into the war.
Dr. Tansill made an exhaustive alysis of the causes of the Great War which Senator Johnson interpreted as proof that the United States should remain strictly neutral in European affairs so as to be acceptable at all times in the role of mediator.
President Woodrow Wilson, he said. was unable to persuade Germany to participate in a peace conference in 1916 because Germany suspected the impartiality of America's motives—
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