“SAD NEWS FROM LONDON”

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22335, 24 February 1938, Page 9

“SAD NEWS FROM LONDON”

ROOSEVELT’S POLICY BLAMED COMMENT IN NEW YORK (CNITBD PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT.) (Received February 23, 10.50 p.m.) NEW YORK, February 23. In a leading article entitled “Some Faces Are Red” the New York “Herald-Tribune” says: “In quoted comment and in even more eloquent silences one seems to detect a certain undercurrent of irritation behind Washington’s response to the sad news from London, As a matter of fact the discomfiture is basically Mr Roosevelt’s own fault. It is the fault of a policy constructed upon the optimistic assumption that it is possible to save the world for nothing.

“It is easy for the American President to summon the nations to great deeds, since geography makes it plain that Americans will be the last people to get hurt. Mr Roosevelt may be trying to arouse the American people to a more bellicose attitude in defence of democracy abroad; but if so he has not dared to explain . this frankly to them. Instead, he has devoted himself to encouraging ideas of bellicose blockade and embargo policies.

“He is always reiterating that he has no idea of leading the American people to war. This may popularise such mbral crusades at home, but it is unlikely to make them attractive to those foreign Powers who will find themselves sitting in front line trenches.”

INTERVENTION BY THIRD PARTY?

LABOUR SUGGESTION IN COMMONS' “UNOFFICIAL” DEALINGS WITH FOREIGN POWER LONDON, February 22. Concluding the Labour contribution to the Commons debate on Mr Eden’s resignation, Mr Herbert Morrison said that if any unofficial third party was intervening between the representatives of Britain and a foreign Power, the House had a right to know whether this was the first occasion on which such a thing had occurred, whether this unofficial person was located in London or Rome, and whether it was a man or a woman.

NOT AN UNOFFICIAL AMBASSADOR LADY CHAMBERLAIN’S DENIAL FROM ROME ROME, February 22. Lady Chamberlain, widow of Sir Austen Chamberlain, denies a suggestion in a section of the English press that she is a sort of unofficial ambassador in Italy. She states that her visit is private. She added: “Signor Mussolini is an old friend of mine and the late Sir Austen, and we frequently visited him. We knew Count Ciano long before he became Foreign Secretary.” There had been a suggestion that Lady Chamberlain’s reports had influenced her brother-in-law, Mr Neville Chamberlain, and that she was conveying Signor Mussolini’s desire for a restoration of friendship to England.

RUSSIAN WARNING TO AGGRESSORS * EXECUTION OF NAVAL CHIEF ADMITTED MOSCOW, February 22. The Soviet Commissar for Defence (M. Voroshilov), addressing .the Red Army, said: “If any enemy dares to attack us and succeeds in sending poison gas across the frontier, we will pour poison gas on their heads by the pailful.” M. Voroshilov cleared up the, mystery of the disappearance in October of Admiral Orlov, Com-mander-in-Chief of the Navy, who was Russia’s chief delegate to the Coronation. Describing Admiral Orlov as a traitor, M. Voroshilov said he had been destroyed, presumably meaning that he had been shot.

DEATH SENTENCE FOR SOVIET WORKERS ALLEGED SPREADING OF TYPHUS BACILLI MOSCOW, February 22. Eleven veterinary workers were sentenced to death at Ordzhonikidze for causing the deaths of 90,000 cattle since 1932 by spreading typhus bacilli, which also resulted in mass poisoning of civilians and soldiers. Two others ; were sentenced to death, but this was commuted to 25 years’ imprisonment because they made a full confession and because they can still be useful as specialists.