FASCISTS AND NAZIS WELCOME DECISION.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 156, 5 July 1939, Page 10

FASCISTS AND NAZIS WELCOME DECISION.

V.S. ARMS SUPPLIES.

Roosevelt's Fear Of Aiding War In Europe.

REPORTS FROM CAPITALS.

United Press Association.—Cop.rrisht

(Rfcplvrd I'. 30 p.m.)

TT\ DE PARK (Wash.), .Inly 4

Sitting in his shirt sleeves on a lawn, whero a Fourth of July picnic had been given to SO guests, President Roosevelt, at a Press conference, indicated further his position on the neutrality question, just before interrupting his holiday and departing by special train for Washington in an e(Ti>ft to secure the elimination of the embargo proviso from the Bloom Bill.

The President asserted that Prem dispatches from the four major capitals, statlnp that the action of the House of Representatives in adopting n modified embargo had been welcomed by the Fascist and Nazi nations, were substantiated by reports received by the State Department.

He expressed tlio belief that the House's action had had an unfavourable effect on the current European crisis nnd might bring war closer, and would inuke it more difficult for the United States to keep out of a war. He added that lie wanted a measure that would bo more likely to have a restraining effect upon nations considering war. since the first policy of his .Administration wag to prevent any war In any part of the world. Mr. Hull's Warning. The Washington correspondent of the "New York Times" says the Secretary /"f State, Mr. Cordell Hull, issued a warning that some members of Congress w ill have to explain why they want to 8<» home and hang their hats in the 'hade, while thfc world is in such a dangerous condition. He indicated that the Administration might start an "educational campaign'' to arouse public opinion to the necessity of abolishing the arms embargo.

The former President, Mr. Herhest Hoover, writing in a magazine published to-day, demanded a formal declaration by the Government of the United States that it will not go to war with a European nation unless the western hemisphere is attacked.

He considers that the neutrality legislation In unimportant unless the United States has the will to remain out of war. He criticises President Roosevelt's "more than words" methods against, aggressor nations, as drawing the nation into power politics.