NAZI DENIAL

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20069, 16 October 1939, Page 7

NAZI DENIAL

MEDIATION TALK

i U.S. INTERVENTION 1 PRIVATE VIEWS ONLY , SCATHING COMMENT PRESS OF AMERICA i FAMILIAR TECHNIQUE i (Klee. Tel. Copyright—United Cross Assn.) (Reed. Oct. IG, 9 a.rn.) NEW YORK, Oct. 15. A Washington message states that the White House secretary yesterday reiterated that President Roose- ■ | velt had not received a German | plea to mediate in the war in I Europe. . | The Washington correspondent of i the New York Times says that Mr. Roosevelt has dissipated any possibility of his intervention as a peace- ( maker on tire unofficial German suggestions. More by silence than what he had said he indicated that he had no intention to move either through proffered mediation or otherwise, unless one or al] of the belligerents asked for it officially. The Secretary of State, Mr. Cordell Hull, said that no phase of the question of mediation (had been raised 'in the United States Embassy in Berlin by Germany. The New York Times ;n an editorial says: ‘Should Gerimny formally request the United Spates to convoke a peace conference, it would be our privilege to draw attention to the successive official appeals and warnings which the United States Government has given against German aggression and to assert readiness for a conference when Germany has (rriade restitution and appropriately guaranteed her intention to respect future treaties.” Ominous Revelation The New York Herald-Tribune, in ! an editorial, says that the interview in Berlin given by the Nazi press chief, Dr. Dietrich, to correspondents of the press of neutral States has altered the whole face of the international situation. "There has been no more brilliant or more ominous revelation of the paranoiac state of the Nazi mind than this,” continues the Herald-Tribune. “Apart from the divorce from all sense of realities of j the American attitude it exposes a view of the international situation appalling in its implications. Exactly repeating the familiar technique it reduced the British Empire to the role of a second Poland and gives the United States the role hitherto contemptuously allotted to Britain. If the United States fails in this it will | be branded as a warmonger and solei ly responsible for the slaughter which ! tile Nazi Napoleon ruthlessly threat- | ens. Can even Senator Borah talk of j the United States as an isolated pri- | vatc island ox peace when Herr Hitler I thus orders us to be his allies in s colossal second Munich or take the consequences? It certainly is impossible for the United States to move toward peace or mediation after this.” A Berlin message states that the official German news agency, referring to Dr. Dietrich’s statement now denies that there was any suggestion that President Roosevelt should intervene and adds that this assumption was due to a misunderstanding of a private conversation.