PRESIDENTIAL PLANS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 253, 25 September 1939, Page 9

PRESIDENTIAL PLANS.

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NEW YORK, Sept. 23

A - message from Hyde Park states that President Roosevelt declined to comment on a suggestion by the Repwbliean Party Loader (Mr Landon) that lie should renounce his third-term aspirations to the Presidency. He added, however, he might have something to sav “after I see the full text.” friends of President Roosevelt interpret Mr London's suggestion as “an attempt to put the President ‘on the spot’ politically.” * President Roosevelt’s only reaction was that talk of a third term as President had no place in the consideration of a plan to ensure neutrality by repeal of the arms embargo. In an interview with "the ScrippsHoward newspapers,.Mr Landon asserted that the greatest single contribution President Roosevelt could make to the present troubled situation would he to tell the nation that he did not want, and would not accept, a third term.

Mr Landon expressed the opinion that, unless President Roosevelt did this, it would he impossible to eliminate politics in dealing with the problems the European war had created. He said President Roosevelt owed this to himself, hisrparty and his country.