FUTURE AT STAKE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 96, 21 March 1940, Page 8

FUTURE AT STAKE.

DEMOCRATIC IDEALS. AMERICA WARNED. TORONTO, March 19. i Mr James H. It. Cromwell, United | States Minister to Canada, addressing the Canadian Empire Clubs, criticised American isolationists and issued a warning that Germany “frankly and openly seeks to destroy the institutions of the social and economic order on which the United States Government is founded. “It is only too apparent that the life, liberty, livelihood, and very safety of the citizens of all the neutral democracies may be dependent on the outcome of the present war,” said -Mr Cromwell. NO PEACE - PLAN, MR WELLES’S STATEMENT. GERMAN DOOR CLOSED. LONDON, March 19. Mr Sumner Welles has disclosed that no belligerent or other European Government has placed a peace plan or mediation proposals before him. He added emphatically that he had not conveyed suggestions for peace to any Rower. A Wilhelmstrassc spokesman told neutral journalists that there was no question of Germany making peace proposals. On the contrary, Germany is resolved to carry on the war until the Allies are completely defeated and Germany’s vital needs are secured for nil time. Hitler’s peace offer of last October no longer existed owing to its rejection bv England and France. Signor Virginio Gayda, writing in the Giornalc D’ltalia, says it is ridiculous to consider Mussolini as running between the capitals of Europe on behalf of pacification for which no Government is asking. Mussolini has not sought a further conference with Mr Welles.