RELIEF & DOUBTS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 October 1938, Page 7

RELIEF & DOUBTS

OPINION IN THE UNITED STATES SACRIFICES BY DEMOCRACIES. END NOT YET IN SIGHT. NEW YORK, September 29. Americans welcomed the news of the Munich settlement with a sense of deepest relief, but mingled with the sense that the democracies have made direct and indirect sacrifices, the end of which is not yet in sight. “If the Munich agreement should prove the beginning instead of the end of war clouds and wars in Europe arising from the current application fol self-determinism, and if war is demonstrated to have been postponed, instead of averted, then the judgment of the contemporary world and history will be different,” says the chief Washington correspondent of the “New York Times.” “It is too early to say that peace has been firmly established by the concessions the democratic Powers have made. “In view of minority questions still affecting several nations in Europe, the moods and methods of Hitler and Mussolini and the constant need for dictators to win victories, it might be well to await the events of the next few months before too much credit is claimed for those statesmen who made contributions to a settlement of the Czech crisis.”