WOULD ACCEPT DICTATOR RULE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 159, 6 July 1940, Page 9

WOULD ACCEPT DICTATOR RULE.

MANY MERICMS

Impressed By Its Efficiency, Says President.

OBJECTIVES IN PEACE EFFORT

Press Association.—Copyright. (Received 10 e.ro t NEW YORK. July President Roosevelt, in a statement at his family estaie at Hyde Park, said a sizable segment ol" American opinion was so impressed 'with the temporary efficiency of corporate States that they were willing to coinpromise with a dictatorship. Ho said the segment was not large in relation to the population, but it numbered a good many people. He added that any compromise entailing a sacrifice of ideas was essential to democratic government. The President listed the objectives that must be realised before permanent, peace could be assured. These were:—Firstly, freedom irorn fear, entailing disarmament; secondly, freedom of information; thirdly, freedom of religion; fourthly, freedom of expression; fifthly, freedom from want, by the removal of cultural and commercial barriers between nations. Ha added that this raised the question, "Whether we were going to seek the five freedoms, give them up, or encourage by lack of opposition thosa nations which removed them to achieve somewhat more efficient government."