NO CHANGE MADE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 30, 6 February 1939, Page 7

NO CHANGE MADE

U.S. DEFENCE POLICY FOUR POINTS STATED THE PRESS BLAMED [By Telegraph—Brest Association—Copyright) Received Feb. 5, 5.5 p.m. WASHINGTON, Feb. 3. Addressing a Press conference, President Roosevelt branded as "a deliberate lie” a report that he had placed America's new defence frontier on the Rhine. He asserted that the foreign policy was unchanged, and added that the American people were beginning to realise that things they read and heard were “pure, unadulterated bunk.” Mr. Roosevelt restated his foreign policy thus:— (1) No entangling alliances; (2) Encouragement of the world trade of all nations, including the United States; (3) Sympathy with any and every effort to bring about reduction of armaments. (4) National sympathy with the peaceful maintenance of the political, economic and social independence of all nations. Mr. Roosevelt pointed to a stack of newspapers on his desk and declared that they all contained articles and headlines giving an erroneous impression of the Administration's aims and intentions. He described the implications placed on the secrecy of his conference with the Congressional committees as “100 per cent, hunk.” He asked the pressmen if they thought he should make public information from the United States Intelligence Service on matters which their agents believed true but could not prove immediately.