SECOND APPEAL

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20027, 28 August 1939, Page 5

SECOND APPEAL

ROOSEVELT CALL MESSAGE TO HITLER POLES WILLING TO PARLEY DIRECT NEGOTIATION SAVING OF HUMAN LIFE (Klee. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) (Reed. Aug. 28, 9 a.m.) NEW YORK, Aug. 26.

President Roosevelt yesterday again appealed to Herr Hitler, urging Germany to accept the Polish offer to settle the dispute by direct negotiation.

“I have this hour received from the President of Poland a reply to the message Which I addressed to Your Excellency and to him last night,” said Mr. Roosevelt, who continued:! “I am sending' Your Excellency the' text of Moscicki’s reply.

President Roosevelt quoted M. Moscicki’s reply emphasising that the Government of Poland always considered direct negotiations the most appropriate method of solving difficulties and for that reason had concluded non-aggression pacts with Germany and the Soviet.

M. Moscicki added: “We consider the method of conciliation through a third party as disinterested and impartial as Your Excellency would be a just and equitable method of solving the controversies.”

Hopes of Moscicki

M. Moscicki said that Poland was not. proffering claims demanding concessions in this crisis, and therefore it was natural that she would refrain from any positive act of hostility, provided .the other party did likewise. He hoped that Mr. Roosevelt’s appeal would assist a sorely-needed return to the blessed path of progress and civilisation.

President Roosevelt, after quoting the whole of M. Moscicki’s reply, continued:

“Your Excellency has (repeatedly and publicly stated that the ends and objectives sought by the German Reich were just and reasonable. In his reply to my message the President of Poland has made it plain that the Polish Government is willing, upon the basis set forth in my message, to agree to solve the controversy which has arisen between the republic of Poland and the German Reich by direct negotiation, or through a process of conciliation. Countless Human Lives

"Countless human lives can yet be saved and hope may still be restored that the nations of the modern world may even now construct a foundation for a peaceful and happier relationship if you and the Government of the German Reich will agree to the pacific means of settlement accepted by the Government of Poland.

“All the world prays that Germany too, will accept,” concluded Mr. Roosevelt.

The British Associated Press Berlin correspondent reports that a German Government spokesman said that the answer to Mr. Roosevelt s second peace message would 1 come from Herr Hitler personally or from the Chancellery staff, owing to the delicacy of the situation. Mr Roosevelt hag also cabled King Leopold, assuring him of the wholehearted support of the United States people and Government in his peace efforts.