The Archive · 1939

Foreign Policy Battle May Begin Today

Strong Criticism of President Roosevelt's Statements Expected in Senate

Washington, Feb. 4.

REVIVAL of the Congressional argument over President Roosevelt's foreign policy was expected to flare up here again soon after the Senate reconvenes on Monday.

Despite the President's reaffirmation of foreign policy announced at yesterday's press conference, and his emphatic denial that he had mentioned the Rhine as the new United States frontier, some confusion remains among Senators as to what the President actually said in his secret meeting with the Senate Military Affairs committee earlier this week.

The members of the Committee themselves today disagreed as to what hey heard the President say. A canvass of members of the Commiitee

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