ALARM IN U.S.A.

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 63, 12 September 1938, Page 9

ALARM IN U.S.A.

EUROPEAN EVENTS

ALLIANCE WITH ENGLAND AND FRANCE DENIED

WRONG DEDUCTIONS

I United Press Association—By Electric TeleI graph—Copyright. NEW YORK, September 10. A special correspondent of the "New York Herald Tribune" says that President Roosevelt is closely following developments in Europe, and does not hide his anxiety. His advisers fully share hisalai-m. Those close to the President state that the. Administration is considering a revision of the neutrality pact to permit the sale of arms on a cash-and-carry basis, and is reexamining the Johnston Act to permit the making of loans or extending credit to debtor nations in the event of war. At a Press conference the President endeavoured to end the growing impression that the United States is morally aligned with the European democracies in a "stop Hitler" movement involving a pledge of support in the event of war. The President indicated there is no alignment. Asked to delineate his attitude respecting the democracies, he referred to recent speeches made by himself and the Secretary of State, Mr. Cordell Hull. The President declared that a section of tl»e American Press was behaving badly in wrongly interpreting facts for political reasons. He was vague in' his references to United States' foreign policy, but when he asked specifically if there was any justification for the growing impression that the United States was allied^to England and France, he replied that certain newspapers had placed their own interpretations on the utterances of responsible Government officials. If the editors would read the English language and no' more in what he and Mr. Hull had said, they would discover that they were 100 per cent, wrong in their deductions.