NO ALIGNMENT.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 58, Issue 284, 12 September 1938, Page 5

NO ALIGNMENT.

UNITED STATES AND EUROPE. MR! ROOSEVELT’S DECLARATION. (United Press Association— Copyright.) NEW YORK, September 10. A Hyde Park message yesterday states that Mr Roosevelt, at a press conference, endeavoured to spike the growing impression that the United States was morally aligned the European democracies in the “stopHitler” movement, involving a pledge of support in the event of war. • Mr. Roosevelt indicated that there was no alignment. Asked to delineate his attitude to the democracies, lie referred to recent speeches by himself and Mr Cordell Hull (Secretary, of State). Mr Roosevelt declared that a section of the American press was behaving badly, in wrongly interpreting facts for political reasons. He was vague in his references to tho foreign policy of the United States, but when asked specifically if there was any justification for the growing impression that the United States was allied with Britain and France, be replied that certain newspapers had placed their own interpretations on the utterances of responsible Government officials.' If editors would read the English language and no more in what ho and Mr Hull had said, they would discover that they were “100 per'cent, wrong in their deductions. ’’ To-day, torn by-personal and public worries, Mr Roosevelt is speeding to Rochester (Minnesota), where his eldest son, James, will undergo a serious operation for the' removal of a gastric ulcer on Monday. Mr Roosevelt is said to be closely following developments in Europe. He does not hide bis anxiety, which his advisers fully share. Those close to Mr Roosevelt state that the Administration is considering A revision of the Neutrality Act to permit the sale of arms on a cash-and-carry basis, and is re-examining the Johnston Act to permit making loans or extending credit to debtor nations in the event of way.