IMPORTANT MOVE

Hokitika Guardian, 9 November 1936, Page 5

IMPORTANT MOVE

TO BANISH WAR

INTER-AMERICAN CONFERENCE.

■.United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright).

NEW YORK, November 8,

Mr Cordell Hull, Secretary of State, on the eve of his departure for Buenos Aires for the Inter-American Peace Conference, informed a delegation that the goal of the participating wo&i|: be ■ ;uq|i< I,to banish war, from the Western Hemisphere," but to establish machinery to serve as a mrdel for world peace. ■ He ' expressed the hope that knowledge of the practical application of the “good neighbour” policy in this hemisphere would be borne home to neighbours across the seas

It is announced that President Roosevelt has definitely decided to attend the conference. News of the President’s decision has put the newspapers in great heart, relegating Spanish news, to second place. * ,

A message from Washington states that the. President, in an international, broadcast coinciding with the scheduled departure of Mr Hull and Mr S. Welles (Assistant-Secretary of State), expressed the fervent hope that the Buenos Aires (conference. would | show the world’s war-weary peoples that the scourge of war qii'd “would, be eliminated in the- Western " Hemisphere. “No other Inter-American. Conference has had: sufili a realisation 6f joint responsibility of maintaining peace and stimulating progress,” he said.