New York Tinea, Ifaroh 31, 1940 Record of German Attempts to Sway Opinion Kept in Capital —Publication Considered FISH WEIGHS IMPEACHMENT Threatens to Ask Move Against Roosevelt and Bullitt on War-Fostering Charge SptcUl to Tm N-w York Twss. WASHINGTON, March 30-Amer- ican officials arc preparing a com- plete report on German propaganda as it refers to the United States. They have been carefully gathering data since the European war began in September, This was learned today on good authority on the heels of Issuance yesterday of the Nazi White Book concerning alleged American mach- inations for war. The authenticity of the While Book's contents was officially denied in all quarters In Washington. Day by day since the war started, it was disclosed, a careful record has been kept of German attempts to influence or divide American opinion at critical moments through official statements in Berlin, or In- spired press reports, or by other channels. The results of this labor are now being carefully correlated and analyzed for official purposes and, perhaps, for eventual publica- tion. Though all foreign propaganda Is being kept under observation, par- ticular attention Is being paid to German propaganda, according to officials, because it has been the most persistent, and in many ways most effective, since the war started. State Department officials pri- vately expressed the conviction that the first public reaction In this country to publication of the Ger- man White Book, containing al- leged diplomatic documents cap- tured when the Nazis took War* saw. was one of indignation. Official* Stand by Denials Official silence was maintained hero with regard to statements at- tributed to authorized officials in Berlin today that diplomatic docu- ments would be Issued in addition to those in the White Book, which included one purporting to show that William C. Bullitt, American Ambassador to France, had told Count Jersy Potocki, Polish Am- bassador to the United States, that American aid would be given to the Allies. In the face of these reports, offi- cials stood on the denials of the au- thenticity of these documents made yesterday by President Roose- velt, Secretary of State Cordell Hull, Mr. Bullitt and Ambassador Potocki. The State Department was awaiting receipt of the full text of the alleged document* be- fore making any further state* ments. Even Isolationists In Congress wer* reluctant to comment on the matter, but were carefully study- ing developments in connection with the Nasi charges. Senator Bennett Champ Clark of Missouri, a leading isolationist, probably expressed the general view when he said "the matter la | too serious to make a snap Judg- ment upon It-" He added that he wanted to give the State Depart- ment full opportunity to study the alleged documents and remarked that it was difficult to know how much of the Information coming from Berlin was propaganda. Representative Hamilton Fish of New York, ranking Republican member of the House Foreign Af- fairs Committee, however, threat- ened to Introduce a resolution In Congress to Impeach both Ambassa- dor Bullitt and President Roosevelt, while Senator Rush D. Holt of West Virginia condemned Ambassador Bullitt. Effect on Pear** Moves Weighed Rumors persisted that Clarence E. Pickett, prominent Quaker, would be appointed the first Amer- ican Ambassador to Germany since Hugh Wilson was withdrawn at the height of the Nazi anti-Jewish cam- paign. These rumors were not de- nied. In some Informed quarters at the State Department the opinion was expressed, however, that publica- tion of the Nazi White Book had made a new exchange of Ambassa- dors between Berlin and Washing- ton unlikely and had almost elimi- nated the scant possibility that a United States peace move would be made. In a radio address over a Na- tional Broadcasting Company net- work. Representative Fish de- clared: "If these charges are true. It would constitute a treasonable act. If President Roosevelt has entered Into secret understandings or com- mitments with foreign govern- ments to Involve us in war, he should be Impeached. "I shall demand a complete lnv**^ tigatlon of the statement alleged to have been made by Mr. Bullitt, and after careful examination of the facts, if the evidence warrants ac- tion by the House, I shall intro- duce a resolution of Impeachment." Mr. Fish made It evident that the Impeachment of both the Ambas- sador and the President might be called for. Senator Holt said; "The remarks attributed to Am- bassador Bullitt too closely resem- ble other remarks made elsewhere by him and others to have the inci- dent brushed aside as 'propaganda.1 They dovetail right into the public speech of another one of these 'poor boy' diplomat*, Jimmy Crom- well, i "I hope the Bullitt Incident Is propaganda, and not the truth, but It sounds very much like the wealthy diplomat. I am sure Sec- retary Hull was stating his true po- sition when he said the remarks did not represent his views."