PRESIDENT'S LEAD

Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 August 1941, Page 6

PRESIDENT'S LEAD

MESSAGE TO CONGRESS

IMPORTANCE OF JOINT DECLARATION.

CONDITIONS OF SURVIVAL

OF FREEDOM

(British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 11.45 a.m.) RUGBY, August 21. While Mr Churchill’s Sunday evening broadcast on his meeting with President Roosevelt ic eager-

iy awaited, warm appreciation is

expressed here of the terms in which the President annqounced

the eight-pcint declaration in a Message to Congress. Mr Roosevelt stated:

“This declaration of principles presents a goal which it is worth while for our type of civilisation to seek. It is so clear cut that it is difficult to oppose it in any major particular without automatically admitting willingness to accept a compromise with Nazism or to agree to a world peace which would give Nazism domination over a largo number of conquered nations. Inevitably, such a peace would be a gift to Nazism to take breath —for a second war to extend .its control to outer Europe, Asia and the American Hemisphere itself. It is unnecessary for me to point cut that a declaration of principles includes of necessity the world need for freedom, religious freedom and information. No society or world organised under the announced principles could survive without these freedoms, which, are part of the whole freedom for which we strive.”

Messages have been sent by Mr Churchill and Mr Cordell Hull to M. Tsouderos, the Greek Premier, thanking him for his telegram endorsing the Churchill-Roosevelt declaration. ■

LINCOLN PARALLEL MR ROOSEVELT AS HEADLINE WRITER. (Received This Day. 11.50 a.m.) NEW YORK, August 21. The “Daily Mirror," brazenly - capitalising President Roosevelt’s Tuesday Press conference suggestion of the headline “Lincoln Parallel,” has sent to “cub headline writer, F.D.R.," a sixdollar cheque for it. which no doubt Mr Roosevelt will hand to his favourite charity. The President’s quotation of the Lincoln biography so pointedly inferring that America has a war to win continues to be sharply contrasted with his seemingly contradictory utterance on Saturday that America is no nearer entering the war.