MR. ROOSEVELT'S SPEECH

Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 87, 9 October 1937, Page 9

MR. ROOSEVELT'S SPEECH

CAUSE OF PEACE

PRAISE BY BRITISH PRIME

' MINISTER (British Official Wireless.) (Received Octobcr 9, 12.45 p.m.) RUGBY, October 8. A noteworthy feature of the speech of the Prime Minister, Mr. Neville Chamberlain, at the Conservative Party's conference at Scarborough was his reference to President Roosevelt's Chicago speech. Describing it as a clarion call a,s welcome as it was timely in its utterance, Mr. Chamberlain recalled the impression hitherto generally held that the United States, the most powerful country in the world, would remain content with a frankly isolationist policy. The President had seen that if what he had called at Chicago an epidemic of . world lawlessness was to be allowed to spread no country would be safe from attack. In his declaration of the necessity for a return' to belief in the pledged word and the sanctity of treaties, Mr. Roosevelt had voiced the convictions of the British as much as those of the American people, and in his call for concerted effort in the cause of peace the British Government would be wholeheartedly with him.

REAL CRIME AGAINST humanity.

Mr. Chamberlain went on to speak of the hostilities in China and Spain and the sickening and horrifying use of-bombing aeroplanes against non-combatants. The real crime against humanity lay in the resort to force without even an attempt to settle differences by peaceful discussion. Mr. Chamberlain considered it premature to commit the Government to any particular course of action regarding China, but said that the British Government would gladly co- | operate in any helpful plan for peace, j Spain was still causing the Government increased anxiety. He trusted that the Italian reply to the joint Anglo-French invitation might prove such as would bring them all into greater harmony. •'