POLICY APPROVED

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 53, 31 January 1938, Page 7

POLICY APPROVED

AMERICAN DEFENCE. “AIMED AT PEACE.” SUPPORT IN PRESS. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) NEW YORK, Jan. 30. The New York Times, in a leader solidly backing up President Roosevelt, says:— “The present policies • of tho Administration are aimed at peace and not war, at the prevention of incidents which may lead to war, and at strengthening this country’s hand so that its influence may count more heavily on the side of that decent respect for international obligations which alone can bring peace and order.” It adds that the naval message must be read in conjunction with the American Note to Japan protesting about new acts of depredation. Tho New York Herald-Tribune, in a leader, says:— “There is an obvious reason why the President does not care to discuss international relationships in a message asking for specific ships and guns, but, unless our new rearmament is to develop into a simple sky-limit race, there will have to be more precise official and popular reconsideration of our defence position in the New World which has emerged from the old one in which parity and naval treaties were enough.” The Washington correspondent of the New York Times points out that since President Roosevelt assumed offfice lie has made provision for building 238 warships. When the programme is completed the navy will have 278 under-age ships and a naval air force of 3000 ’planes. The total outlay involved will be 3,262,000.000 dollars.