“ROUND-ROBIN ” TO 60 NATIONS

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22521, 1 October 1938, Page 18

“ROUND-ROBIN ” TO 60 NATIONS

Mr Roosevelt’s Plea

For Peace

WORLD APPEASEMENT

PLAN

(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHT.)

(Received September 30,. 9 p.m.)

WASHINGTON, September 30,

It is indirectly disclosed that Mr Roosevelt has sent a round-robin message to 60 nations, making a plea for peace, and, it is believed, plans for calling an , international conference after the Munich settlement, which will discuss appeasement in various disturbed areas in the world.

The United Press states that observers believe that there was an interchange of opinion on the question -between. Signor Mussolini and Mr Roosevelt just preceding the convening of the Munich meeting, in which Mr Roosevelt emphasised the advisability of such a conference if the Czech crisis was settled without a war.

All day long diplomatic representatives of various countries called on the State Department, bringing what are believed to be answers to Mr Roosevelt’s peace plea. Officials of the White House and the ’State Department declined to discuss the matter, similarly refusing to comment on the statement from Prague that Czechoslovakia intends to ask Mr Roosevelt to serve as mediator in the Sudeten dispute. Unofficially it is indicated that the apparently successful outcome of the Munich conference obviates the question of Mr Roosevelt’s mediation and centres more direct attention on the larger questions of world appeasement through a world peace conference.

Mr Roosevelt issued an appeal to the American people to join him and Mrs Roosevelt in prayer on Sunday for the continued peace of the world.

Americans welcomed the news of the Munich settlement with a sense of deepest relief, but mingled with a sense that the democracies had made direct and indirect sacrifices, the end of which was not yet in sight. \

POPE’S CALL FOR

PEACE

BROADCAST APPEAL FOR PRAYER

ROME, September 29. Pope Pius XI, in a broadcast, said

“While millions of men live in dread because of the imminent danger of war, because of the threat of unexampled slaughter and ruin, we gather into our paternal heart the trepidation of our children and invite the Bishops, the laity, the religious, and the faithful to unite in the most undaunted, most insistent, prayer for the preservation of peace in justice and charity. “To this invincible power let the people have recourse, that God in Whose hands rests the destinies of the world may sustain, in those who govern, confidence in the pacific ways of negotiation and lasting agreement; that He may inspire in all sentiments and actions corresponding to the reiterated desire for the world’s peace, which will be suited to foster peace and establish it upon. a secure basis of law and Gosnel teachings. “We give to all the great Catholic family and all the human family our paternal benediction.”

“IMPOSING WILL ON DEMOCRACIES ”

COMMENT OF M. LITVINOV at GENEVA

GENEVA, September 29

“At this very moment, perhaps, Herr Hitler and Signor Mussolini are imposing their will on the, democracies,” said M. Litvinov, speaking at a meeting of the League of Nations Political Committee.

He was referring to the Spanish application to the Council to send a League committee to note the withdrawal of foreign volunteers from Republican Spain. He appealed for the granting of the request to clear the international atmosphere of its accumulated hypocrisy and lies. Italy and Germany, while demanding self-determination for the Sudetens, denied the Spanish people the right to determine their own destiny, he said. The committee referred the request to the Council.

WAR RUMOURS LEAD TO SUICIDE

TWO DEATHS REPORTED IN

ENGLAND

LONDON, September 29. A German-speaking clerk at Brixton, after listening to Herr Hitler’s speech on September 12, declared: “Well, that means war." He was later found gassed in his room. A gardener in Suffolk committed suicide with a rifle. He had been worried for days over the international situation.