Washington, Feb. 4.
Bitterly denouncing the Press, and declaring that "many stories clrccluted abou, American defence and foreign policy are pure bunk" President' Roosevelt yesterday scribed as a "deliberate ie reports of a statement which he was said to have made to the Military Affairs Committee of the Senate, that the "American frontier is in France, oF on the Rhine."
When questioned on his alleged. "Frontier" statement at a press con~ ference here yesterday, the Pre dent stated with a. smile: "Som boob must have got off that state. ment."
Noi only had he not made it, the President stressed, but "of course it a not the ease."
American foreign policy, he went fon to state, had been "fully covered"
his messages to Cony Tt was, very simple, and there was nothing ow to add to it He knew that his reported state ment received applause in Groot Britain and France, and met with attacks in Germany and aly, but "both attacks and applause" were based on a mis-statement of fact."
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