Senator Robert R. Reynolds and Rep. Hamilton Fish, leading isolationists in Congress, today demanded congressional investigations of Ambassador William Bullitt on the basis of the allegedly faked “Potocki memorandums” in the Nazi White Book.
Reynolds demanded that Bullitt submit himself to an investigation by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. He accompanied his demand with a resolution which would compel the United States to recognize de facto governments so long as they recognized the rights of American citizens.
The State Department was uncertain as to what governments Reynolds had in mind. A spokesman pointed out he might mean recognition of the German conquests of Poland and Czechoslovakia and the Japanese puppet government in China, but emphasized that the language of the resolution was not plain.
In his resolution Fish called for a five-man investigation of the White Paper charges with a report to be made to the House within thirty days.
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