STRICT SILENCE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 223, 20 September 1938, Page 9

STRICT SILENCE.

U.S. OFFICIAL CIRCLES.

President Urged to Maintain

Isolation.

ANTI-BRITISH OUTBURST

I'niteU I'ross Association.—Copyright

WASHINGTON*. September lit

Reports arc recurring to tlie efl'ect that certain supporters of the NewDeal are urging I , resident Roosevelt to make sonic <lr;iinntic gesture in the interests of world peace, preferably by summoning a Peace Conference. However, many well-informed observers say it is not likely that lie will risk directly involving the United States in Europe. .Six peace organisations yesterday urged the President to maintain isolation. Expressing fears that lie was art in? in conceit with France and liritain. these organisations asked .Mr. Roosevelt to issue a elear-cut pronouncement upon the altitude of the Cabinet. The Secretary of State. Mr. Cordell Hull, is watching the fast-breaking developments in Kurope. but is maintaining strict silence, fie is keeping in constant touch with American observer* abroad and lie and certain Depart mental chiefs are granted instant access to the White House.

It is reported that in order to ensure the strict neutrality of the Xavy, the Maritime Commission has formulated a plan whereby all the ['lilted Slates - ships would be placed under Government control upon an outbreak of hostilities. It is announced that .Admiral ISloch will review 4<M» naval aircraft at I.os Angeles on September i>. when 100.000 delegates to the convention of the .American Legion will witness the spectacle.

Moderate newspapers which are publishing a vast cjiiantity .if Kuropean news -riving an intelligent picture of the situation lay stress on the extent to which the whole world is involved. Extreme newspapers, on the other hand, provoked by the growing number of speeches sympathetic' to the democracies, are screaming louder for America to keep out of war.

The New York "Inquirer -, gives a fantastic interpretation of history since the (.'reat War. After picturing Mr. Chamberlain as keeping hundreds of millions of Britons in abject subjugation by bayonets, bombs a*nd bullets, the paper coins the slogan: "Perish Czechoslovakia; perish Kurope; Cod save America." The New York "Post"' refrains from an editorial attack, but publishes a series of bitterly anti-British articles alleging that the Kmpire Mas founded on slavery, oppression and intrigue. It predicts a revolution and the disintegration of the Empire in the event of war. POLAND AND HUNGARY Territorial Claims Against Czechoslovakia. HITLER'S SUPPORT SOUGHT. (Received 2.30 p.m.) LONDON, this day. A message from Budapest states that Admiral Horthy. Regent of Hungary, is asking for support from Herr Hitler and Mr. Chamberlain for Hungary's territorial claims against Czechoslovakia.

Renter's correspondent has gained from a diplomatic source that Admiral Horthy will visit Herr Hitler at Berehtesgaden to-dav.

The Polish Press proclaims in large headlines. "We Demand the Return of Polish Soil in Czechoslovakia," says a Warsaw message.

Demonstrations with the slogan. "Poles in Czechoslovakia. Home to the Fatherland," are organising the Polish in Silesia.

Czech residents in Vienna were summoned to police stations and closely questioned, but there were no further arrests.

POLISH MOVES.

Resignation from League

Council.

SOVIET BORDER MANOEUVRES

LONDON. September lft.

Tt is officially announced that Poland has resigned from the Council of the League of Nations, says the Warsaw correspondent of the "Dahy Telegraph."

The writer adds that 100.000 Polish troops, with many tanks and aeroplanes, engaged in three days of manoeuvres at Volhynia. Manoeuvres have not been held previously on such a scale on the Russo-Polish frontier.

The Czechs have prohibited their citizens from coming to Poland without permission, says the Warsaw correspondent of "The Times."

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