WAR DENOUNCED

Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 August 1939, Page 6

WAR DENOUNCED

DEVELOPMENTS IN UNITED ' STATES APPEAL TO GERMAN WORKERS. BY PRESIDENT OF LABOUR FEDERATION. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received This Dav. 1.15 p.m.) WASHINGTON. August 23. Among a wide variety of interesting American developments having a bearing on the situation were the following. The American Ambassador to Germany, Mr Wilson, expressed opposition to any American embargo on the shipment of foodstuffs and raw materials to belligerent nations and also declared that it was illogical to place an embargo on arms and yet ship materials usable for arms and munitions manufacture.

Mr W. Green, president of the American Federation of Labour, appealed to the German workers to refuse to support the war preparations and the war drive which the Nazi leaders are making. “We abhor war and protest against, it,” he said. “We insist and demand that differences between nations be settled peacefully by conferences and consultation, i supplement the appeal made by the representatives of the British workers to German’ working men and women to join us in protesting against war and opposing the threat of war.” The stock markets of America are calm in face of the international tension. While dollars have soared in terms of world currency, sterling at 4.29 is from an opening at 4.12. Stocks, while declining early, rallied sharply toward the close. Bonds; especially those on. the foreign list and United States issues, continued to be weak. Polish losing as much as nine j points.

Wheat closed over a cent higher. Cotton lost a dollar a bale.