NO INTERVENTION

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23149, 22 September 1938, Page 13

NO INTERVENTION

UNITED STATES POLICY - WASHINGTON {SADDENED DEVELOPMENTS IN EUROPE (Received September 21, 9.25 p.m.) WASHINGTON. Sept. 20 That the Government of the United States has encountered nothing to alter its determination not to intervene in. > the European crisis was stated by high . officials to-night. President Roosevelt, who is suffering from a cold, declined to discuss the-' matter at to-day's conference with journalists. He said the situation was such that it would be better if questions were not asked. The Secretary of State, Sir. Cordell Hull, was also silent. Government officials, however, are saddened and aghast at what they terra the breakdown of international law and morality in Europe. Officials say the immediate result is the certainty that the United States will see no similar collapse in this hemisphere, but will insist upon Mexico's recognition of the principle of prompt payment fdr seized foreign property.

The Mexican Ambassador was summoned by Mr. Hull and later indicated that efforts were being made to devise a constructive formula to settle the question of the expropriated farm lands.

The committee for Concerted Peace Efforts, representing 13 peace organisations, has telegraphed to Mr. Roosevelt asking him to reaffirm his principle of industrial and financial embargoes against aggressors. The League of Nations Association has urged the President to help Czechoslovakia and the United CzechoslovakAmerican Societies have asked him to - assume world leadership in the crisis. Mr. James Mead, a Democrat member of the House of Representatives ? for New York, expressed the opinion to-day that the present is an opportune time to ask the United States to take J the lead in drawing up an international agreement against aerial and naval bombardments of civilian populations. Air. Martin Dies, another Democrat member of the House, announced that he was forming a League for Peace and Americanism. The object would be to oppose Communism and Fascism, preserve neutrality and check undesirablo immigration. He predicted a ship of 5,000,000 by January 1. - ,