AMERICA’S NEUTRALITY
CONFERENCE OF LEADERS MOVE BY. ROOSEVELT (Reed. Sept. 19, 3 p.m.) WASHINGTON, Sept. 18. President Roosevelt has invited Mr. Alfred M. Landon, the former Republican candidate for the presidency, and known titular heads of the Republican Party to participate in a conference of the nation’s leaders at White House on Wednesday to consider America’s neutrality programme. Mr. W. F. Knox, who was Mr. Landon’s running-mate in 1936, said Mr. Roosevelt would achieve “remarkable statesmanship if he included leaders of opposing parties in His Cabinet.”
It is understood that the conference is designed not only to enlist bipartisan support for the neutrality proposals, but to determine the strategy to keep the isolationist voices at a low pitch in order to avoid the belief abroad that the nation is widely divided on Mr. Roosevelt’s foreign policy.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20047, 20 September 1939, Page 7
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