PRESIDENT'S COMMENT

Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 77, 1 April 1940, Page 7

PRESIDENT'S COMMENT

NOT PERTURBED

PROPAGANDA EFFORT

SHOULD BE TAKEN WITH GRAINS OF SALT

WASHINGTON, March 30.

President Roosevelt, interviewed concerning: the alleged documents found in Warsaw, indicated that he was not perturbed in the slightest degree. "Propaganda from Europe should be taken with a grain of salt, or, on second thoughts, two or even three grains," he said.

No special conferences were held yes;erday with Mr. Bullitt, who is at present in Washington.

The chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee,- Senator Key Pittman, described the German assertions as "unmitigated falsehoods, circulated to create dissension within the United States."

Mr. Bullitt, referring to Mr. Rooserelt's remarks, said: "This piece of prolaganda should be taken with even lore salt."

Count Potocki said: "It is obvious propaganda. I never conversed with Vlr. Bullitt on the subject of United States participation in the war." The State Secretary, Mr. Hull, formally stated: "No member of my Department gives the slightest credence ;o the charges." He added that the allegations did not represent the policy or fought of the United States at any ;ime.

Members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee echoed his unbelief. Senator Clark, who is an isolationist, commented: "The matter is too serious for a snap judgment, but much of the matter is probably propaganda." While rumours persist that Mr. Clarence Pickett, a prominent Quaker, may be appointed Ambassador to Germany, it is felt in diplomatic quarters that the White Paper makes an exchajiae of Ambassadors to fljl the tw>