PLEA FOR PEACE

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 79, 30 September 1938, Page 10

PLEA FOR PEACE

ROOSEVELT ACTS

ROUND ROBIN SENT

WORLD CONFERENCE

ALL-ROUND APPEASEMENT

(United Press Association—By Ekctric Telegraph—Copyright.) * (Received September 30, 2.30 p.m.) WASHINGTON, September 29. An indirect source discloses that President Roosevelt sent a roundrobin message to 60 nations making a plea for peace, and it is believed that it calls for an international conference after the Munich settlement to discuss appeasement in various disturbed areas of the world. The United Press states that observers believe there was an interchange of opinion on the question between Signbr Mussolini and President Roosevelt just prior to the convening of the Munich meeting in which Mr. Roosevelt stressed the advisability of such a conference if the Czech crisis was settled without resort to war. All day diplomatic representatives of various countries called at the State Department bringing what are believed to be answers to Mr. Roosevelt's peace plea. The White House and the State Department declined to discuss the matter, and similarly refused to comment on a dispatch from Prague to the effect that Czechoslovakia intends to ask Mr. Roosevelt to serve as a mediator in the Sudeten dispute. Unofficially, it is indicated that the apparently successful* outcome of the Munich Conference obviates the question of Mr. Roosevelt's mediation and centres more direct attention on larger questions of world appeasement through a world peace conference. Mr. Roosevelt issued an appeal to the American people to join him and Mrs. Roosevelt on Sunday in prayer for the continued peace of the world. j