NAZI “FEELERS”

Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 December 1939, Page 5

NAZI “FEELERS”

AMERICA NOT INTERESTED LITTLE LIKELIHOOD OF PEACE MOVE. ATTITUDE OF PRESIDENT. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. NEW YORK, December 27. If President Roosevelt joined with those calling for peace now at any price, the most surprised people in the world, except perhaps Herr Hitler and his Inner Cabinet, would be Mr Roosevelt's own diplomatic aides, says Mr Arthur Krock, the Washington correspondent of the "New York Times." Obviously Mr Roosevelt would thereby be accepting me German case and method, and weakening those of the Allies. To ask Britain and France to sit with Herr Hitler now at a peace table is to ask them to confess they were wrong in going to war. It is to inform Herr Hitler that the neutrals, particularly the United States, believe that peace on his terms is more desirable than a war with any objective. There is no evidence that Americans generally have any such attitude. Certainly this Administration would never be pacifist to this degree. Because these consequences of Presidential intervention are at present so clear, the reports of recent German peace feelers have not interested the President’s closest aides. They have not heard that these approaches, if made, were accompanied by promises to substitute other methods for exterior aggression and internal despotism. If when they are. after proper consultation with the other belligerents. the President may be expected lo act, but not before.