Evening Star Newspaper, April 5, 1940, Page 5

. Pittman Turns Down Plan fo Probe Nazi "White Book' Case Welles Denies Discussing ‘Whittling Down’ Reich When Peace Comes By the Assoclated Press. Chairman Pittman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee today rejected fresh suggestions for a| congressional inquiry into the Nazi “white book” imputations that American diplomats helped pave the way for Europe's war. “It is obviously unwise,” he said, “with the United States enjoying such a peaceful situation at home to make unauthentic publications of belligerent powers the subject of violent discussions in our own coun- The war’s ramifications, however, ntinued to be a provocative topic the Capital: 5 1, Senator Holt, Democrat, of fyest Virginia flung the epithet a hounds” at James H. R. Crom- ell, United States Minister to Can- da, and William C. Bullitt, Ambas- sador to France. 2. Undersecretary of State Sum- ner Welles dismissed as “fantastic nonsense” German assertions that in Paris he had discussed French plans to “whittle down” the Reich when peace comes. Speed on Probe Funds. 3. The Senate Audit Committee promised speedy consideration of a request for funds to finance the sweeping investigation of all war propaganda, proposed by Senator Clark, Democrat, of Missouri. The “white book” inquiry rec- ommendation was made yesterday by Senator Vandenberg, Republican, of Michigan after saying he accept- ed “at face value” the denials of M. Buliitt and the State Depart- ment that the Nazi documents were authentic. Senator Pittman commented that, In his opinion, * ann investigatio would accomplish nothing, but arouse feeling among citizens whose forebears came from belligerent | nations. Senator Vandenberg voiced will- fgness to have the “white book allegations considered by the proj- ected Clark propaganda inquiry, if | it is authorized by the Senate. He | said it should determine whether the German publication was “sheer propaganda.” Clark Joins Attack. A Senate discussion of belligerent propaganda provided the spring- board yesterday for caustic remarks which Senator Holt fired at Mr. Cromwell and, in passing, at Mr. Bullitt. Senator Clark joined in| the attack on Mr. Cromwell, who was recently rebuked by Secretary of State Hull for a speech in which he said he hoped for an allied | victory. | Senator Holt said he did not con- sider the American people “resnon- sible for the Cromwells, the Bullitts and the other tea hounds that are representing the countrv.” | Charging that the Minister to Canada had “paid $50,000 for his | Job,” Senator Holt said he thought | the envoy would have gone farther in his pro-ally statement if he had not been restrained by Mr. Hull Mr. Cromwell is the husband of Doris Duke, the tobacco heiress. Senator Clark referred to Mr Cromwell as “a playboy ambassador” and said he should resign “if he had any self respect.” ) Photo Stirs Nazis. ‘The Nazi statement about Under- secretary Welles was based on a photograph taken during his recent | fact-finding trip to Europe. The picture showed Mr. Welles confer- | ring with French Premier Reynaud | (then Finance Minister) in front of | & large map of Europe. ‘The map, Berlin ciaimed, reveale allied plans for the Shrunken fron. tiers of post-war Germany. Mr. | Welles was guilty of “bad taste,” a | German spokesman said, in posing before it. Mr. Welles, in his reply, stated: “At no time during the course of my interviews in Paris or in any other capital I visited was an ref- erence made to any maps. I never even looked at any map which may have been in M. Reynaud’s office.’ Welles Victim of Trick By French, Say Germans BERLIN, April 5 (#).—Authorized | sources took cognizance today of | Sumner Welles’ denial that he had looked at a map in French Premier | Paul Reynaud’s office, insisting that | “Then he has become the victim of | an infamous propaganda trick by | the French.” | A German spokesman yesterday accused Mr. Welles of “bad taste” in posing with M. Reynaud. then Finance Minister, in front of the map. Germans assert it illustrated French aims to dismember Ger- many. “In Germany we ask visiting statesmen before photographing them whether they agree to having their picture taken,” one spokesman said. “The fact that Welles denies hav- ing noted the map relieves him of any stigma of bad taste, but throws an interesting light on the game that was played with him.” Magazine Retoucher Blamed. PARIS, April 5 (#).—French offi- elals today blamed a magazine re-¢ toucher’s zeal for the appearance of new-drawn frontiers on a Eu- ropean map in a photograph of Premier Paul Reynaud, United Btates Undersecretary of State Sum- ner Welles and the First Secretary of the United States Embassy, H. Freeman Matthews. 3 ‘The disputed picture appeared on the cover of the magazine L'Tllus- tration for March 16, which authori- ties seized from the newsstands. As released in the United States, the map in the picture had been obliterated by the French censor. New York Now Yields True Maine Potatoes By the Associated Press. HOULTON, Me.—Nearly a- score of Aroostook county potato growers, who have moved to New York State in recent years, have carved out & settlement in the southern part of that State which reports reach- |' ing here describe as “Little Maine.” The farmers all veteran potato growers, bought farms in Steuben county, applied Maine methods, and in 1939 produced an average of 800. bushels of potatoes to the acre on an aggregate area of 400 scres, > A German Propaganda Confuses Barnum And Abe Lincoln By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, April 5—The official German radio got a couple of famous Americans mixed up last night, giving Phineas T. (“There’s a sucker born every minute”) Barnum credit for a historic quote of Abraham Lincoln. In a broadcast to the United States picked up by the Co- lumbia Broadcasting System’s short-wave listening post, the German radio, castigating French Premier Paul Reynaud for his radio speech to America Tuesday, had this to say: “Premier Reynaud ought to know that world famous saying, ‘You can fool some of the peo- ple all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can’t fool all the people all of the time’ a saying which was coined by none other than Phineas T. Barnum, America's famous circus manager, who coined this as a showman.” Stolen Gas Comes Back DOUGLA S, Wyo. (®—Fred Smith’s private thief could be worse. After the fellow stole gaso- line from Smith's tank on several occasions he left a five gallon can of motor fuel in Smith's vard. “I took some gas out of your car and this is to return it,” said a note on the can. back | THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. 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