The President added that there was nothing Ju the supposed secrecy of his recon conferences with Re-Dresentatives. of the House, and with Senate Committees. The only element of secrecy, he said, was with regard to certain information zat through intelligence channels, the publication of which would terminate Information from the same. sources.
President Roosevelt emphasized that the foreign policy of the United States had not changed, and would change. It had been "deliberate-misrepresented," he deelued, by some members of Congress, "and some newspaper owners, The President's alleged statement caused a sensation inthe world's Relations Committee, following conference with Presideng Roosevelt, "President Roosevelt's latest stateent isan assurance that we, shall for take part in alliances," the Senator added, "There is no preventing a." foreign government from purchasing, in time of peace, everything It needs, including planes, from American private industry. There ix no law banning representatives of foreign Governments to visit factories and planes belonging to private concerns. The only thing in opinion which could prevent a war in Europe and its extension to the United States would be a balance in. military power: such that, none of the interested parties would run the rise of a war."=-Havas,
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