WORLD WAR.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 66, 19 March 1938, Page 9

WORLD WAR.

" Not in Immediate Future" Says Hoover. DANGERS REALISED. (Received 12 noon.) LONDON", March 18. , "After discussing the situation with the leaders of 15 nations, I don't believe a widespread war 1 is probable in the immediate future," said Air. Herbert Hoover, former President of the United States, in an interview with the "Daily Telegraph."

"There are more dangerous Influences than in 1914, but there are n good many reasons .why such a conflagration is unlikely," he said. "Statesmen are more alive to the dangers than in 1914, and all men arc doing their best to promote peace. Most of the principal nations are not ready with their war preparations, and they won't be ready for at least three years." MISUNDERSTANDING. U.S.A. Ready to Take Definite Action for Peace. "MORE THAN TALK ABOUT IT." (Received 2.C0 p.m.) LONDON, March IS. "The opinion that the United State? will not fight under any circumstances short of invasion is not accurate and a dangerous sort of misunderstanding, must be current just now," said the United States Ambassador. Mr. G. P. Kennedy, in his first speech in England at the Pilgrims dinner. He added that America was willing to do more than merely talk about peace. She would gladly join any nation or group of nations in a peace programme based on economic recovery, the limitation of armaments, and a I revival of the sanctity of international commitments.