Reading Eagle (February 17, 1941)
NO DECISION ON CHINA TRIP, WILLKIE DECLARES
Washington, Feb. 17 (UP) –
Wendell L. Willkie, 1940 Republican presidential candidate, who has just returned from an inspection trip of Great Britain, today is considering a similar tour of China.
Willkie came here yesterday to deliver an off-the-record address to the National Women’s Press Club and will speak again today, also off the record, at a National Press Club luncheon. Asked after his address yesterday about rumors of a trip to China, he replied:
No definite decision has been reached.
He said he would return to the private practice of law soon and that next weekend he would return for the first time since his presidential campaign to his Rushville, Ind., farms, “to roam over the farms and do some thinking.”