INFLUENCE FOR PEACE

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20132, 29 December 1939, Page 7

INFLUENCE FOR PEACE

ROOSEVELT ENDEAVOUR LEADERS OF CHURCHES (Reed. Dec. 29, 9 a.m.) NEW YORK, Dec. 27. Despite the recent moves by President Roosevelt, it should not be assumed that a peace move is imminent. The first indication of such a move, which was discussed by Mr. Arthur Krock, the Washington correspondent of the New York Times, in an earlier dispatch, may be the filling of the vacant Ambassadorship in Berlin which Mr. H. R. Wilson vacated as a protest against the November purges. Questioned yesterday regarding the prospect of an appointment to Berlin, the presidential secretary, Mr. Stephen Early, admitted that it would be logical to have an Ambassador if President Roosevelt were making a peace move, but the Washington correspondent of the New York Times has at present no indication of such a move, although should the conditions change generally, it is assumed the President would throw his influence towards peace, perhaps in association with His Holiness the Pope.

The correspondent adds that it was presumably to learn the implications of Mr. Myron Taylor’s appointment, President Roosevelt’s personal representative at the Vatican, that the British Ambassador, Lord Lothian, conferred with the Secretary of State, Mr. Cordell Hull, to-day.

After conferring with President Roosevelt, Mr, George Buttrick, president of the United States Federal Council of Churches of Christ, and Rabbi Cyrus. Adler declared they were all in agreement and were available for further conferences, which is regarded as further evidence that a peace move is not planned.