WORLD APPEAL

Hokitika Guardian, 17 May 1933, Page 5

WORLD APPEAL

BY U.S.A. PREMIER

PEACE AND RECOVERY AIMED AT

(United Press Association—By Electri Telegraph— Copyright.)

(Received this day at 9.30 a.m.)

WASHINGTON, May 16

Mr Roosevelt to-day appeded directly to the rulers of the nations to reduce armaments, to elininate entirely the weapons of -aggression, to refrain from sending any armed force whatsoever beyond their own borders, to forget “petty” national aims, and to join sincerely to assure peace and economic recovery.

In a plain speaking message, the President asked for specific steps immediately, and declared that if any nation interposed obstructions, the civilised world would “know where the responsibility for the failure lies.”

He mentioned no nation by name, but his words rang through the diplomatic world with dramatic significance, 'at the moment when certain leaders in -Germany, are asking \for greater -armaments and when Japanese troops are .marching deeper into China. The message, contrary to long standing diplomatic practice, was addressed directly to Kings, potentates, and presidents of Ml the fifty-fouj. nationg to bo 'represented at the London Confer* once, including Russia,

JUDICIOUSLY TIMED

(Received May 17 at 10 a.m.) PARIS, May 16.

Mr Roosevelt’s statements are regarded as judiciously timed to give a cue to Chancellor Hitler, whom Rome also is possibly prompting to bo prudent.