WARMLY APPROVED

Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 October 1940, Page 5

WARMLY APPROVED

ROOSEVELT’S DEFIANCE 1 OF DICTATORS ( — THOUSANDS OF TELEGRAMS OF CONGRATULATION. WARNING OF EVENTS ABROAD. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) WASHINGTON, October 13. Thousands of telegrams have poured into the White House congratulating President Roosevelt on last night’s speech in defiance of the dictators. The “New York Times” comments that such evidence of public approval might influence Mr Roosevelt io transfer flying fortress bombers to Britain. Mr Roosevelt, speaking over the air today on domestic economics, declared that events abroad provided a warning that guns and similar preparations were insufficient. “We need grit, sacrifice and daring,” he said. “The injunction to love one’s neighbour animates our faith, which we are determined shall live and conquer in a world that is poisoned by hatred and ravaged by war.” TALK IN TOKIO® PRESIDENT “PROVOKING WAR.” “ALLEVIATION” ABANDONED. TOKIO, October 13. All newspapers gave prominence to President Roosevelt’s speech, using virtually identical headlines: “United States Will Oppose ThreePower Alliance.” • The “Yomiuri Shimbun” says that the address supports the charge that Mr Roosevelt is provoking war. The “Nichi Nichi Shimbun” says that the United States is abandoning “alleviation.” JAPAN IN ASIA ENTITLED TO LEADERSHIP. ACCORDING TO MR MATSUOKA. EUGENE (Oregon), October 14. The Japanese Foreign Minister, Mr Matsuoka, writing in the magazine of the University of Oregon, asserted that Japan stands wrongfully condemned before the bar of international opinion. He admitted that not all Japanese are motivated by idealism and said, “In our midst we find many minds that cannot conceive of an armed contest except in terms of conquest,” but he insisted that such a school of thought did not prevail. He said, “The East demands a chance to build her own house and live her own life under the new order born from her own mind. Japan has taken the leadership because no other nation is capable,”