| Show JOHNSON FLAYS I 1 OCEAN OCEA PARLEY Sees ees Anglo-American Anglo Pact in Making r WASHINGTON Aug 19 UP Senator Hiram W. W Johnson R. R Cal Tuesday charged in the senate senate senate sen sen- ate that the Roosevelt-Churchill Roosevelt declaration created an offensive and defensive alliance between the United States and Britain Johnson made the charge in an exchange with the senate Democratic Democratic Democratic Demo Demo- I cratic Leader Alben W. W Barkley of I Kentucky after Barkley had condemned condemned condemned con con- a newspaper account of Mondays Monday's conference at the White WhiteHouse WhiteHouse WhiteHouse House when President Roosevelt outlined the foreign situation to congressional l leaders aders Barkley condemned the article as a deliberate and premeditated falsehood which was intended to deceive the American people The story in question said congressional congressional con con- gressional leaders had intimated after the conference that the British British British Brit Brit- ish nero need assistance of a vast American expeditionary force to defeat Germany It was carried by the Chicago Trib Tribune ne Press ice Cites Sixth Article Johnson who said he did not wish to enter into the discussion of the newspaper dispatch took issue with a statement by Barkley that the point eight-point program put out by bythe bythe bythe the president and Churchill contained contained con con- tamed nothing which would Indicate Indi cate an alliance It is as plain as the nose on a aman's amans amans aman's amans aman's mans man's face said Johnson shaking a forefinger at at- Barkley that the sixth article tells what they are going to do 40 the point which said After the final d destruction of the nazi tyranny y they the hope to see established a a peace which will afford afford afford af af- af- af ford to all all' nations the the- means of dwelling in safety within th their ir own boundaries and which will afford assurance that all the men in all aIt the lands may live out their lives in Ih freedom from tear rear and want No other construction or Inter can be put on that language language lan ian guage J Johnson sald said by Stalin That means that after the destruction destruction de de- de- de tIon of the nazi tyranny the two nations entering into this particular particular particular par par- commitment will have a anew anew anew new order based on decency and freedom and a government headed Continued on Pa Pat Pase e Two Column Two Offensive Pact Signed At Sea Says Senator Continued from Page P-p Pi One I I assume though they did no not say so so-by so by Mr Stalin It does create an offensive and defensive alliance between th the United States and Great Britain It does say that after the common enemy Is destroyed they hope to establish a new order It was the first time the historic statement issued as a a. result o othe ot of the high seas conference between the two nations nation's rulers had been debated on the senate floor Senator Bennett C C. Clark D. D Mo Interposed that he considered considers the statement more significant for foi what it did not contain than what was given out The British press which apparently apparently ly was b better informed inform than than th the United states press said sate almost universally that commitments were made for tor the almost immediate entrance entrance entrance en en- trance of the United States in the war for an American expeditionary expedition expedItion- ary force Clark asserted Calls Calls' for Clarification If any commitments were made for or the United States on n the Prince of f Wales on a belligerent battleship battleship battle- battle ship hip does not the senator feel that the he president of the United States exceeded his constitutional authority authority authority au au- au- au Clark added that this fact should be e made known to the world lest cst there be a charge of bad faith If I the alleged commitments are not lived ived up to Clark said the president had created risk of a a war incident by going aboard the Prince of Wales Speaking peaking to Barkley he said If that British battleship carrying carrying carrying car car- the president his two sons the le chief of staff the chief of naval aval operations and other high ranking naval officers had been I bombed by a belligerent plane plane plane-a a right ight which the belligerent would have would nave would that be an act of war against the United States Does the senator think that the president resident might have deliberately placed laced himself in such a position where had the ship been bombed this lis nation might have been plungEd lunged into war PresIdent resident Ran Risk Barkley replied that he did not I know how many of the conferences conferences' if any had tak taken n place on board the Prince of Wales He said that an n American cruis cruiser r the Augusta had md been lashed to the side of the British warship If an enemy ship had destroyed the le Prince of Wales while the president president pres- pres ident dent was on it or the Augusta it might have created a situation which would have excited the American people Barkley con- con ceded eded He said that the president was willing to run the risk and do dohis his duty uty by undertaking the conference conference confer- confer ence nce with Churchill td dt W this historic document Barkley argued that the hope for or a world peace after destruction of f was not a commitment commit commit- ment that ment that is is' an ex expression of a hope ope But But said Johnson if if you agree gree in a written instrument to express express's a a hope of a a. certain character character char- char acter you have got to to do something something some- some thing hing to carry out the hope You have lave got to take from the United States tates a force to carr carry out that hope ope L s a ks 4 w 4 s e t q sat YZ w SENAT SENATOR R HIRAM JOHNSON Shook his Ills finger at Barkley |
