PRESIDENT’S TERM

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20051, 25 September 1939, Page 6

PRESIDENT’S TERM

POSSIBLE THIRD PERIOD RENUNCIATION URGED ADVICE OF REPUBLICAN ROOSEVELT RETICENT (Elec. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) (Reed, Sept. 25, 9 a.m,) NEW YORK, Sept. 23,

in an interview with Scripps-How-urd newspapers the former Republican candidate for the Presidency, Mr. Alfred M. Landon, asserted that the gieatest single contribution which President Roosevelt could make to the present troubled situation would be to tell the nation that he did not want and would not accept a third ferm as President of the United States.

Mr. Landon expressed the opinion that unless Mr. Roosevelt did this it would be impossible to eliminate politics in dealing with the problems which the European war had created. He said that Mr. Roosevelt owed this to himself, his party and his country.

A message from Hyde Park states that Mr. Roosevelt declined to comment on the suggestion of Mr. Landon. He added, hpwever, that he might have something to say “after I see the full text.”

Friends of Mr, Roosevelt interpret Mr. Landon’s suggestion as an ' attempt to put the President on the spot politically.” They stated that Mr, Roosevelt’s only reaction w r as that talk of a third term as President had no place in the consideration of tho plan to insure neutrality by the repeal of the arms embargo.