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