NOT ON THE RHINE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 February 1939, Page 6

NOT ON THE RHINE

U.S.A. DEFENCE FRONTIER

ROOSEVELT SPEAKS OUT.

FOREIGN POLICY OUTLINED.

By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright. WASHINGTON, February 3.. President Roosevelt, addressing the Press Conference, branded as “a deliberate lie” the report that, he had placed America’s new defence frontier on the Rhine. He asserted that the foreign policy of the U.S.A, was unchanged, and added that American people were beginning to realise that the things they read and hear are "pure unadulterated bunk.” President Roosevelt again stated the U.S.A, foreign policy thus: (1) No entangling alliances. (2) Encouragement of the world trade of all nations, including the United States. (3) Sympathy with any and every effort to bring about a reduction of armaments. (4) National sympathy with the peaceful maintenance of the political, economic and social independence of all nations. President Roosevelt pointed co a stack of newspapers on his desk, and declared that all contained articles and headlines giving an erroneous impression of the administration’s aims and intentions. He termed the implications placed on the secrecy of his conference with congressional committees as "one hundred per cent bunk." He asked the pressmen if they thought that he should make - public information from the United States Intelligence Service on matters which agents believed to be true but could not prove immediately.