Foreign Relations of the United States Diplomatic Papers, 1937, General, Volume I

811.04418/254

The Secretary of State to the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations (Pittman)

Washington, April 20, 1937.

My Dear Senator Pittman: I acknowledge the receipt of your letter of April 10, 1937,³ transmitting to me for consideration and report the resolution—S. Res. 100⁴—requesting that I advise the Senate in regard to the applicability of existing neutrality legislation to certain hypothetical circumstances.

In reply, I have to inform you that I am entirely in accord with your opinion of this bill which you so ably set forth in your speech in the Senate on April 9.⁵

Sincerely yours,

Cordell Hull

3. Not printed.
4. March 25, 1937, Congressional Record, vol. 81, pt. 3, p. 2737.
5. Ibid., p. 3319.