WORLD PEACE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 July 1940, Page 5

WORLD PEACE

VIEWS OF THE AMERICAN PRESIDENT PRINCIPLES AND PROBLEMS. STATEMENT OF VITAL ISSUES. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) HYDE PARK, July 6. President Roosevelt, in a statement made through his secretary, Mr Early, renounced any territorial aspirations for the United States and implemented his world peace aspirations with a proposal for a post-war territorial adjustment which would be achieved by continental or hemispheric consultation. The President, however, issued a warning to Germany to keep out of the west hemisphere, suggesting that any west hemisphere claims of Germany be handled through all 21 American countries. Mr Early said there was an absence of any intention whatever to interfere in any territorial problems in Europe and Asia. “What this Government would like to see and thinks should be applied would be a Monroe Doctrine in effect for each continent in each part of the world,” he added. At a Press conference at his home at Hyde Park, President Roosevelt said that a sizeable segment of Americans was so impressed by the temporary efficiency of the corporate State that they were willing to compromise with the dictatorships. He said that the segment was not large in relation- to the population, but numbered a good many people. Any compromise, he continued, would entail sacrifice of ideas essential to democratic government. Mr Roosevelt listed the objectives which must be realised before permanent peace could be assured. First, freedom from fear, entailing disarmament; second, freedom of information; third, freedom of religion; fourth, freedom of expression; and fifth, freedom from want by the removal of cultural and commercial barriers between nations. The President added that this raised the question “whether we are going to seek the five freedoms, give them up, or encourage by lack of opposition those nations which have removed them to achieve a somewhat more efficient government.”