RELIEF IN AMERICA

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 78, 29 September 1938, Page 10

RELIEF IN AMERICA

TURN OF EVENTS

PRESIDENT'S PART

SUPPORT FROM PEOPLE

(Received* September 29, 2.30 p.m.) NEW YORK, September 28.

It. is impossible to over-estimate the new sense of relief felt in America over the last-minute turn of events, and officials at Washington, no less than the people as a whole, are profoundly stirred at the reprieve which it is.devoutedly desired may be translated into permanent or general appease-' ment. •

It is yet impossible to determine exactly what part President Roosevelt's private plea to Signor Mussolini, the text of which has not been published because it was a personal message, played in bringing about the four-Power conference. There is some belief that a previous consultation with the British Government underlay the President's step and the message was designed .to arrive at Rome simultaneously with Mr. Chamberlain's message to Signor Mussolini. The State Department has declined to conir ment further on the situation.

It is undoubtedly a matter of considerable importance that American sentiment continues strongly to back President Roosevelt's messages to the European leaders. There is such a general unanimity on this point that the effect of it must be interpreted as considerably furthering the possibility that the American people would show little hesitation in following President Roosevelt's leadership in so far as such may be dictated by' the course of action growing out of tense messages. Something of this feeling can be drawn from the opening sentence of a leader in the "New York Sun,' a newspaper, notoriously anti-Roosevelt in all other things: "The logic of President Roosevelt's rejoinder to Herr Hitler's Note ik irresistible."

The "New York Times" Washington correspondent telegraphs that the White House has announced that the Munich conference "offers great hope and encburagement." The correspondent adds that for the first time for several days it was really believed that grave danger of war could be averted. It is also disclosed that President Roosevelt was actuated in his final messages by the*-fear that Herr Hitler might order a march on the