The Archive · 1939

French Press Comments

Paris, Feb. 4.

President Roosevelt's denial yester~ Jday thay he had told the Military Affairs Committee of the Senate at a meeting on January 31 that the "American frontier was in France or Jon the Rhine," Is the chief subject of [comment in the press here today.

distinct impression prevails in the press that the denial does not camou~ age the spirit of the policy attributed to the President, The delay in sond= {ing a denial or "clarification" as Mime [Genevieve Tabouis terms it, is mainly responsible for this impression.

With almost an unanimous' voice. the press considers that President Roosevelt. wished the effect of his reported declarations to sink in. 'LOrdre" says that it does not diminish in the Yeast what was felt before it was issued. The bitter re-faction of the Nazi and Fascist prose also featured in the French news

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