NO ALIGNMENT
U.S.A. AND EUROPEAN DEMOCRACIES MR ROOSEVELT CRITICISES NEWSPAPERS SAYS SPEECHES HAVE BEEN MISINTERPRETED By Telegraph —Press Association. Copyright. NEW YORK, September 11. Torn by personal and public worries. President Roosevelt is speeding to Rochestei’ (Minn.), where his eldest son James is undergoing a serious, operation for the removal of a gastric ulcer.
The “New York Herald Tribune’s” special correspondent on board the presidential train says that the President is closely following developments in Europe, and does not hide his anxiety. His advisers fully share his alarm. Those close to the President state that the Administration is considering a revision of the neutrality pact to permit the sale of arms on a cash-and-carry basis, and is re-examining the Johnston Act to permit the making of loans or extending credit to debtor nations in the event of war.
A message from Hyde Park yesterday states that President Roosevelt, at a Press conference, endeavoured to end the growing impression that the' United Stated is morally aligned with the European democracies in a “stop Hitler” movement involving a pledge of support in the event of war. The President indicated there was no alignment. v
Requested to delineate his attitude respecting the democracies, he referred to the recent speeches made by himself and Mr Cordell Hull. The President declared that a section of the American Press was behaving badly in wrongly interpreting facts for political reasons. He was vague in his reference to the United States foreign policy, but. asked specifically if there was any justification for the growing impression that the United States was allied to England and France, he replied that certain newspapers had placed their own interpretations on the utterances of responsible Government officials. If the editors would read the English language, and no more in what he and Mr Hull had said, they would discover that they were 100 per cent wrong in their deductions.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 September 1938, Page 5
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