PEACE APPEAL TO MUSSOLINI
Roosevelt Acts Again (Received May 16, 7.5 p.m.) NEW YORK, May 16. The “New York Times’ ” Washington correspondent says that in consequence of disturbing reports concerning the increasing danger of Italian involvment in the war, President Roosevelt has again appealed to Signor Mussolini not to spread the war. The appeal was drafted at a midnight conference with Mr. Cordell Hull and other advisers, and has been transmitted to the United States Ambassador in Rome. Officials in Washington will not comment, except to say that the President is merely continuing his efforts to prevent the war from spreading.
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Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 198, 17 May 1940, Page 10
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