AMERICAN ABROAD IN TROUBLE.

Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 20773, 6 February 1933, Page 3

AMERICAN ABROAD IN TROUBLE.

ALLEGED TO BE TALKING ABOUT DEBTS. GOVERNMENT INVESTIGATING. I.UHITBD I'RESa ASSOCIATION—BT EI.ECTMG TELZGRAi'tt— COPYKIGHT.) (Received February 5, 7.4 p.in-) WASHINGTON, February 4. The. United Stales Government today undertook sin investigation into Mr "William C. Bullitt's activities in foreign capitals, which have been alleged in some quarters to relate to war debt settlements. Prominent Democrats have denied reports that Mr Bullitt was representing Mr l'\ D. Eoosevelt (Presidentelect). A message published on Saturday read - Another foreign debts debate broke out in tJio Senate? to-day, with Senator A. It Robinson (Republican, Indiana) demanding that the State Department should apprehend, under the Logan Act, Mr William G'. Bullitt, who has been reported to bo negotiating on debts abroad. "Judging from press accounts, Mr Bullitt's visits to Berlin, London, and Paris are supposed to be in connexion with war debts." Senator Robinson Haid. "Mr Bullitt is making a laughing stock of the American people, and it is high time the American Government asserts who he is. He is going about in disguise, and when not in disguise is going under an assumed name. He seems to have -no credentials." Mr William C. Bullitt was formerly a prominent newspaperman, arid was attache to the American Commission to Negotiate Peace, 1918-19. He was also until recently managing-editor for the Players-Lasky Film Corporation.