ROOSEVELT APPEAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 September 1938, Page 8

ROOSEVELT APPEAL

MR CHAMBERLAIN’S REPLY HIS MAJESTY’S GOVERNMENT GRATEFUL. UNABATED EFFORTS FOR PEACE. (Received This Day, 10.45 a.m.) RUGBY, September 26. Mr Chamberlain has despatched the following reply to President Roosevelt through Mr Cordell Hull (United States Secretary of State):—“His Majesty’s . Government hail with gratitude the ! weighty message addressed to them and to certain other Governments. In this critical time it is indeed essential to remember what is at stake and to weigh the issues with all gravity : before embarking on a course from which there may be no return. His Majesty’s Government have done and are doing their very utmost to secure" a peaceful solution of the present difficulties and they will relax no effort as long as there remains any prospect of achieving that object. They are even today making a further earnest appeal for a settlement by negotiations, in which they would be ready to lend their good offices. The President’s words can but encourage all those who sincerely desire to co-oper-ate in this endeavour. His Majesty’s Government for their part respond to the President’s appeal in all sincerity and without reserve and they most earnestly hope that the other Governments to which it is addressed will do UKewise.” SUPREME EFFORT M. DALADIER’S MESSAGE. (Received This Day, 12.10 p.m.) PARIS, September 26. The Prime Minister, M. Daladier, has replied to President Roosevelt that France is making a supreme effort for an amicable settlement. “I specially value the reaffirmation of the Kellogg Pact, in the spirit of which we tenaciously seek formal agreements compatible with the dignity and vital to the interests of the nations involved,” M. Daladier adds. “We trust thus to serve the justice and peace which nave always linked France and America.” French official circles welcome President Roosevelt’s message, as throwing a more definite weight for peace. GERMAN JIBE MESSAGE WRONGLY ADDRESSED. SHOULD HAVE GONE TO PRAGUE. (Received This Day, 11.55 a.m.) BERLIN, September 26. “President Roosevelt’s cable was wrongly addressed. It should ha’ve gone to Prague,” declared a spokesman of the Propaganda Ministry. SOVIET RUSSIA SIGNIFICANT PUBLICATION OF TREATY (Received This Day, 11.15 a.m.) MOSCOW, September 26. The “Izvestia” significaniiy reprints the text of the Soviet-Czech Treaty, emphasising the Soviet’s .oblige lien i assist Czechoslovakia in the event cl" attack.