“Course of Nations Leads to Disaster”

Northern Advocate, 15 July 1938, Page 5

“Course of Nations Leads to Disaster”

-PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT

(Received 12.30 p.m.) SAN FRANCISCO, July 14, President Roosevelt, in an address before reviewing the United States Fleet, said: “Every right-thinking man and woman in the United States wishes it were safe for the nation to spend less from our national budget on armed forces. “All know that we are faced with a condition and not a theory, and that condition is not of our own choosing. Money spent on armament does not create permanent income-producing wealth, and about the only satisfaction we can take from the present world situation is that the proportion of our national income we spend on armaments is only a-quarter or onethird of the proportion most other nations are spending. United States Favours Disarmament. “Wo fervently hope for the day when other leading nations of the world will realise that their present course must inevitably lead them to disaster. We stand ready to meet them, but encourage them in any effort they may make towards definite reduction in world armament. “The year 1939 -would be one for world rejoicing if it could mark de finite steps towards permanent peace. This is the hope and prayer of an overwhelming number of men. women and children in all parts of the earth to-day.”