WORLD PEACE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 306, 25 November 1937, Page 11

WORLD PEACE.

I UNITED STATES’ EFFORTS. ATTITUDE TO JAPAN. WASHINGTON, Nov. 23. President Roosevelt, at a Press conference, said the United States would continue diplomatic efforts to effect world peace, but he declined to comment on the collapse of the Brussels conference. The President added: “Our policy will be directed at the present unrest and future dangers.” He said lie was not formulating any opinion on the Brussels conference until he saw the last dispatches of the American delegate, Mr Norman Davis. ,

The State Department _ indicated there will be close collaboration among all the foreign Governments having interests in Shanghai. If Japan attempts to direct activities in the International Settlement and if its plans are broadened to include the seizure of actual control, the United States will join other interested Governments in emphatic representation. The Chinese Ambassador, Mr Wang, issued a statement in which he accuses the peace-loving Powers of counting the cost and inertia. In fact, international lawlessness, he said, “is threatening to shatter the very foundations of international civilisation and the hope of our youth is being dashed to pieces.” .