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DEPARTMENT OP STATE
FOR THE PRESS July 21, 1939
No. 301
TEXT OF LETTER FROM THE HONORABLE CORDELL HULL, SECRETARY
OF STATE, TO THE HONORABLE KEY PITTMAN, CHAIRMAN OF THE
SENATE FOREIGN RELATIONS COMMITTEE WITH REGARD TO RESOLU-
TION NO* 166 INTRODUCED BY SENATOR VANDENBERG.
July 21, 1939
The Honorable WM
Key Pittman,
Chairman, Committee on Foreign Relatione,
United States Senate.
My dear Senator Pittman:
I am in receipt of your letter of July 20, 1939 re-
questing an expression of my views regarding S. Res. 166,
introduced by Senator Vandenberg, stating that it is the
sense of the Senate that the Government of the United States
(1) should give Japan the six months' notice provided for in
the treaty of 1911 for its termination and (2) should ask
that the Conference of Brussels of 1937 be reassembled.
Notwithstanding the authority which is vested in the
Executive in regard to the matters mentioned in the resolu-
tion, I am glad to say that the Executive is always pleased
to have advice from the Senate and to give such advice full
and careful consideration consonant with the great weight to
which the opinions of the Senate are entitled.    Such consider-
ation will, therefore, be given to the opinion of the Senate
as set forth in the resolution under reference, in the event
of its passage.
Sincerely yours,
CORDELL HULL