LIBERTY OF ACTION

Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 September 1939, Page 7

LIBERTY OF ACTION

NEEDED BY UNITED STATES I IN DEALING WITH WAR EVENTUALITIES. PRESS SUPPORT FOR PRESIDENT. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. NEW YORK, September 22. Leading articles in an overwhelming majority of the nation’s outstanding newspapers support President Roosevelt in his attitude to neutrality. The New York “Tribune’s” article is typical: “There are broader and more basic arguments favouring repeal which the President could not well explore,” it says. “The United States is facing a complex, .difficult and wholly unpredictable situation. Therefore it is first important to regain liberty of action to deal with eventualties. No legislation will prevent the United States warring if war only means defending vital interests. No insults, difficulties and incidents will compel the United States? to fight if her vital interests do not demand it. Neither peace nor war is the issue. It is a question whether to bind ourselves in fetters that have proved unsatisfactory in the past and that will only be more difficult to break in the future.” PROPAGANDA PLAN CONSIDERED BY SENATOR BORAH. ’ (Received This Day, 9.45 a.m.) WASHINGTON, September 22. Senator Borah revealed that he had tentatively considered the formation of a committee of notable persons, like Mr Henry Ford, Colonel Lindbergh and Mr H. Hoover, to issue propaganda to the public against the arms embargo repeal. Personally, however, he believed it was not necessary _ as “the people are pretty well well-informed on this issue.”