ABSTRACT
The Democratic majority of the Congressional Committee conducted its affairs so skillfully that, on account of the state of Mr. Hull's health, members of the Republican minority had no opportunity to examine him orally at the hearings. Thus several of the Administration's complicated moves in relation to Japan remain obscure, despite the thousands of selected pages composing the record published by Secretary Hull and the State Department. President Roosevelt rejected Mr. Churchill's proposal that he strengthen his warning to the Japanese Government by adding a declaration of his intention to seek authority from Congress to aid any power attacked by Japan in the Southwestern Pacific. In addition to President Roosevelt's suggestions for a modus vivendi, Secretary Hull had for his consideration, in arriving at a decision, a long memorandum on the subject from his experts in the Far Eastern Division of the State Department.
