PRESIDENT’S PEACE EFFORTS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXIII, 10 January 1940, Page 5

PRESIDENT’S PEACE EFFORTS

A DISTANT HOPE PRACTICAL ENCOURAGEMENT BY SPRING discrimination denied [U-PA.-By Electric Telegraph-Copyright] (Received 10th January, 9.45 a.m.) WASHINGTON, 9th January. President Roosevelt hopes that his efforts for peace will find practical encouragement by the spring, according to a group of Protestant churchmen who visited the White House. They protested against the appointment of Mr Myron C. Taylor as President Roosevelt’s personal representative at the Vatican. Mr Taylor is a Protestant. A spokesman said: “The President in-j dicated that the appointment was based j on the distinct hope of real develop-! ments towards peace.” He added that he felt the hope might be encouraged by the spring. He denied that any discrimination against churches or the jeopardisation and separation of Church and State was either involved or intended.

TWO FACTS RECOGNISED

PRESIDENT’S BLUNT, FORCEFUL WARNING NEW YORK, Bth January. People of the United States recognise two facts,” said President Roosevelt, addressing Democrat leaders at socalled Jackson Day dinners throughout the nation “First, that ihe world outside our hemisphere is in really bad shape. This is a matter for realism. It is a fact so big that few people grasp its meaning, a fact so big in its effect on the future of

the world that all our little partisan squabbles are shameful in the light of it. The second is that we have made gieat gains at home in our own economic prosperity, and the security of individual citizens. These gains must not be chipped away. They must be only a foundation on which to build further gains.”

The Washington correspondent of the United Press of America says that though the President’s remarks were good-humoured, they are, nevertheless considered a blunt, forceful warning that the Democratic Party must continue to earn the support of liberal Republicans, progressives and others, who flocked to its standards from 1932 to 1936, and that the speech was ar unmistakable declaration that Democrats cannot win with a Conservative Presidential candidate. REPUBLICAN PARTY LEADER’S COMMENT (Received 10th January, 10.10 a.m.) NEW YORK, 9th January. A message from Topeka, Kansas, states that Mr A. M. Landon, leader of the Republican Party, who has frequently supported President Roosevelt’s foreign policy, asserted that the President’s Jackson Day speech would make it difficult for the United States to “present a united front to the foreign countries which are watching us closely.” He added: “If the President would just give the spirit of unity an opportunity to work it would be so helpful. Instead, he makes it difficult by his foxy way of playing with the third-term proposition and the business of inviting three Republicans to the Democratic meeting, then expressing regret that they did not come. He knew they would not attend when they were invited. They had no business there. It was not a non-partisan speech and sounded more like a list of reasons why the Democrats should continue in power.”

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