AVOIDANCE OF WAR

Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 October 1940, Page 5

AVOIDANCE OF WAR

PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT’S POLICY OPPONENTS ACCUSED OF FALSEHOOD DENIAL OF ANY SECRET UNDERTAKINGS. NO USE OF FORCES EXCEPT IN CASE OF ATTACK. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) PHILADELPHIA, October 23. President Roosevelt, in his first major campaign address, again stated his promise to keep the United States out of foreign wars. He charged Republicans with using the dictators’ propaganda technique of deliberate mis-state-ments. “Throughout these years my every act and thought has been directed toward preserving peace in the world, more particularly peace in the United States and the Western Hemisphere. I stand upon the party platform. We will not participate in foreign wars and will not send the Army, Navy and Air Force to fight in foreign lands except in case of attack. The allegation that I am going to war offends every political and religious conviction I hold dear. “I used every ounce of the Presidency’s prestige to prevent, then isolate, war. I deny fantastic misstatements that the Government has entered into secret agreements with foreign Powers. I solemnly declare we have no secret understandings with anybody. I have laboured for peace all my life and will do so to my death.” President Roosevelt described as false his opponents’ claim that he “sold” Czechoslovakia, also that a third term may mean the end of democracy.