President. in view of certain information which has come to me. I deem it my duty to bring to the attention of the Senate a situation which. if my Information is accurate. seems to me dangerous to the war effort. fraught with peril to the American people. sinister in its implications. involving men high in the Government. destined to make the United States hated by small foreign governments. and robbing the taxpayers of the United States. I believe. from the information given me. that several hundred persons. many of whom are British subjects. others of whom have only taken out their first naturalization papers. and others deliberately planted here by foreign governments. are holding key positions in agencies controlling American foreign affairs. and that many of them are furthering British aims at American expense. I realize the seriousness of these charges. and would not make them unless I were satisfied that they are true. It is my understanding that international financiers have formed a powerful British syndicate which has taken over the entire mifieral rights of Ethiopia. taking them away from the common people. and that this syndicate has become so powerful that it has thwarted the American mission to Ethiopia. that the American mission* has not gotten started because a British subject high in the councils of this Government has stopped the processing of the proper papers for the personnel of the commission. and that this high official has stated that he would see that the members of the American mission would never be granted the necessary passports.
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