APPEAL MADE TO MR ROOSEVELT

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22511, 20 September 1938, Page 9

APPEAL MADE TO MR ROOSEVELT

Direct Intervention

Urged

"IGNORE ORDINARY

CUSTOMS"

Fresh Leadership To

Stave off War

(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYEIGHT.) (Received September 19, 11 p.m.) TORONTO, September 19. Appealing to Mr Roosevelt to provide fresh leadership to stave off war, the "Toronto Globe and Mail," in a leading, article, says that the President could forestall a conflict without committing the United States.

."We ask Mr Roosevelt," the article states, "to follow Mr Chamberlain's magnificent procedure and ignore the ordinary diplomatic customs and appeal personally to Herr Hitler for a conference of European Powers to which Mr Roosevelt would go in person by the first available boat, free from political association with the issues involved, and free even from the fear/of bombers over his people. "The President could provide the restraining influence of a dispassionate mind, and the inspiration that his only interest is in saving human lives."

MR CHAMBERLAIN

AWAITED

GREAT PREPARATIONS

AT GODESBERG

ACCOMMODATION FOR

JOURNALISTS

(Received September 20, 2.10 a.m.)

BERLIN, September 19

The Ministry for Propaganda has commandeered the whole of the Godesbergerhof, one of the largest hotels in Godesberg, to accommodate 100 foreign journalists for the occasion, of*Mr Chamberlain's visit.

- The whole of- the Hotel Dreesen, of 170 rooms,- has been placed at Herr Hitler's disposal, by the proprietor, Herr Fritz Dreesen, "one of the oldest friends of Herr Hitler, who recuperated there in 1926. At that time a number of guests resented the presence of the "firebrand Hitler" and left as a protest. Since then a permanent suite in the hotel, including a large balcony room overlooking the most beautiful part of the Rhine, has .been reserved for the Fuhrer, and he will probably receive Mr Chamberlain there.

POLAND RESIGNS COUNCIL SEAT

ANNOUNCEMENT MADE

, IN WARSAW

MANOEUVRES ON RUSSIAN FRONTIER

(Received September 19, 10.15 p.m.)

LONDON, September 19.

The Warsaw correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" says it is officially announced that Poland has resigned her seat on the League of Nations Council. The Warsaw correspondent of "The Times" says the Czech Government has prohibited the citizens going to Poland without permission. The Warsaw correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" says 100,000 Polish troops, and many tanks and aeroplanes, are engaged in three-day man&euvres at Volhynia. ' Manoeuvres hfcve not previously been held on such a scale on the Russian-Polish frontier. HUNGARIAN MINORITY DEMANDS ASSURANCE OF SUPPORT FROM BUDAPEST LONDON, September 19. The Budapest correspondent of "The Times" says the Government has promised to support the demands of the Hungarian minority in Czechoslovakia for a plebiscite. The tension in Danubian Europe is increasing. Anxiety is being kept at fever heat by German wireless propaganda.

GERMANS WITHDRAW EQUIP^NT

WASHINGTON, September 18

. The Associated Press is circulating a report that Germany has withdrawn from Spain a quantity of equipment, including her new rapid electrically-controlled artillery and Messrs Schmidt. and Heinkel aircraft.

The movement is reported to be accompanied by a speeding up of shipments of ore from Bilbao to Germany. -