AMERICAN IRRITATION.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 74, 24 February 1938, Page 9

AMERICAN IRRITATION.

PRESIDENT CONDEMNED. NEW YORK, Feb. 23. In an editorial, “Some Faces Are Red,” the New York Herald-Tribune says: “In quoted comment, and even more eloquent silences, one seems to detect a certain undercurrent of irritation behind the Washington response to the sad news from London. “As a matter of fact the discomfiture is basically President Roosevelt’s own fault. It is the fault of a policy constructed upon the optimistic assumption that it is possible to save the world for nothing. “It is easy for the American Presiden t to summon the nations to great deeds, since geography makes it plain that Americans will be the last people to get hurt. “President Roosevelt may be trying to arouse the American people to a more bellicose attitude in defence of democracy abroad, but, if so, he has not dared frankly to explain this to them. Instead lie has devoted himself to encouraging ideas of bellicose blockade and embargo policies. “He is always reiterating that he has no idea of leading them to war. This may popularise such moral crusades at home, but it is unlikely to make them attractive to those foreign Powers who will find themselves sitting in the front-line trenches.”