APPEASEMENT PLAN

Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 43, 14 November 1940, Page 10

APPEASEMENT PLAN

Allegation Against J. P. Kennedy COMMENT ON BOSTON INTERVIEW NEW YORK. November 12. The Washington columnists of the North American Newspaper Alliance, Messrs. Alsup and Ixintner, describe the reported interview which Mr. J. P. Kennedy.. United States Ambassador to Britain, gave to the "Boston Globe." as one of the most fantastic incidents in American diplomacy, and allege that -Mr. Kennedy plans a crusade for ‘’unblushing appeasement’ of the dictators.

The columnists add: "Mr. Kennedy ‘seems to have confided to the ‘Globe’ reporter ideas that he has privately spread with industry for some time. It was his announcement of a personal crusade to limit American involvement in the war, for which he is seeking the support of publishers and Congressmen. It is impossible to mistake the general drift of the interview toward open and unashamed appeasement. "It is serious to suggest that such a public man holds theories to which 90 per cent, of the American people are opposed, but Mr. Kennedy's record speaks for itself. His dispatches from the beginning to the end of his mission in London reflected appeasement. He attempted to convince President Roosevelt that such views were correct, despite the terrible evidence to the contrary from Hitler. “When President Roosevelt sent a message to Hitler and President Moscicki of Poland, urging arbitration before the war began. Mr. Kennedy angrily cabled to tlie State Depart ment declaring that the President should have urged Polish capitulation. Then on the outbreak of war, Mr. Kennedy was near to hysteria, and telephoned President Roosevelt -announcing that it was ‘tire end of the world.' ”