APPEAL REPEATED

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20026, 26 August 1939, Page 5

APPEAL REPEATED

ROOSEVELT CALL MESSAGE TO HITLER THREE COURSES OPEN PATH OF CONCILIATION AVOIDANCE OF CONFLICT (Elec. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) (Reed. August 26, 9 a.m.) WASHINGTON, August 24. President Roosevelt has addressed appeals for peace to Herr Hitler and the Polish President; M. Moscicki, President Roosevelt suggested the following three methods of avoiding war: —

(1) By direct negotiation. (2) By impartial arbitration of the controversy. (3) By agreement to adopt a Procedure of conciliation and the selecting of a conciliator or a. moderator.

President Roosevelt suggested a truce from any act of hostility for a reasonable stipulated period.

President Roosevelt recalled to Herr Hitler that he had not received a reply to the message he sent to the Fuehrer in April, but “because of my confident belief that the cause of the world peace rises above all other considerations, I am again addressing myself to you with the hope that war, which impends, and the consequent disaster to all peoples everywhere, may yet be averted.” President Roosevelt’s appeals were cabled direct to Herr Hitler and M. Moscicki and were not sent through the regular diplomatic channels. Government Not Involved

President Roosevelt’s secretary said that neither the President nor any member of the United States’ Government was offering himself in the role of conciliator “Thus,” he said, “there is no possible suggestion bf involving this Government.”

The text of President Roosevelt’s appeal to Herr Hitler reads: — “In the message I sent to you on April 14 last, I stated that it appeared to me that the leaders of the great nations had it in their power to liberate their peoples from the disaster that impended, but that unless an effort was immediately made, with goodwill on all sides, to find a peaceful constructive solution of the existing controversies, the crisis which the world was confronting must end in catastrophe. “To-day, that catastrophe appears very near at hand indeed. To the message which I sent you last April, I received no reply, but because bf iny confident belief -that the cause of world peace—which is the cause of humanity itself —rises above all other considerations, I am again addressing myself to you with the hope that war which impends, with consequent disaster to all peoples everywhere, may yet be averted. With All Earnestness “I therefore, urge with all earnestness —I am likewise urging the President of Poland—that the Governments of Germany and Poland agree by (common accord to refrain from any . positive act of hostility for a reasonable stipulated period, and that they agree likewise to solve the controversies which have arisen between them by one of the three following methods:— “(1) By direct negotiations.

“(2) By the submission of the controversies to impartial arbitration in which they can both have confidence.

"(3) That they agree to the solution of the controversies through a procedure of conciliation, selecting as conciliator or moderator a national of one of the traditionally - neutral States of Europe Or a national of one of the American Republics, which are all free from any connection with or participation in European political affairs.

“Both Poland and Germany, being sovereign -Governments, it is understood, of course, .that upon resort to any one of the alternatives, I suggest, each nation will agree to accord complete respect of the independence and territorial integrity of the other. United in Opposition

“The people of the United States are as one in their opposition to policies of military conquest and domination. They are as one in rejecting the thesis that any ruler or any people possess the right to achieve their ends or objectives through taking action which will plunge countless millions of people into war, and which will bring distress and suffering to every nation of the world, belligerent and neutral, when such ends and objectives, so far as they are just and reasonable, can be satisfied through the processes oi peaceful negotiation or by resort to judicial arbitration.

“I appeal to you in the name of the people of the United States and, believe,’ in (he name of peace-loving men and women everywhere, to agree to a solution of th e controversies existing between your Government and that of Poland through the adoption of one of the alternative methods I have proposed. “I need hardly reiterate .that should the Governments of Germany and Poland be willing to solve their differences in the peaceful man ner suggested, the Government of the United States still stands prepared to contribute its share to a solution of the problems which are endangering world peace in the form set forth in my message of April 14.”