PEACE MOVE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 September 1939, Page 7

PEACE MOVE

PROJECTED BY PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT

CONGRESS TO BE CALLED.

WHEN WAR APPEARS CERTAIN

By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright NEW YORK, September 1.

Despite the fact that Herr Hitler ignored the two previous messages, it if believed in Washington, according to the United Press of America, that President Roosevelt will make a new and broader peace appeal if convinced that negotiations have broken down. It is expected, to include England and France as well as Germany and Poland this time. There is also considerable talk that he may reconvene Congress to discuss the repeal of the arms embargo. The President has stated that this step would be likely when war appears certain.

Developments today included an order for the dispatch of 30 planes and three artillery units with a personnel numbering 881 to the Panama zone tc strengthen the canal defences. The Attorney-General, Mr Murphy, announced a campaign against foreign spies. The Federal Bureau of Investigation is establishing offices in Manila, Puerto Rico, Hawaii, and Alaska. “There will be no repetition of the 1917 situation,” Mr Murphy said. “The Government already has a grip on the spy system.” President Roosevelt, in a message read by Mrs Roosevelt at the launching of the 34,000-ton liner America, significantly referred to the importance of the American merchant marine “should the unfortunate necessity arise of serving as a supply force for naval vessels.”

A poll taken by the American Institute of Public Opinion has revealed that 88 per cent of Americans do not wish Britain, France and Poland to agree to Germany’s demand for Danzig. The institute comments on the extent to which Herr Hitler has alienated American opinion in the past year. The British Ambassador, Lord Lothian, in a statement to the Press, said that a final peaceful solution in Europe may include an economic concession by Britain and consideration of the colonial problem, provided the discussion is based on general disarmament. He added that the United States’ Neutrality Act would adversely affect Britain if it prevented the fulfilment of the orders for aircraft and arms already placed.