PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23054, 3 December 1936, Page 9

PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT

. ADDRESS IN BUENOS AIRES CONFERENCE ON DEMOCRACY (United Press Association) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) BUENOS AIRES, Dec. 1. (Received Dec. 2, at 5.5 p.m.)

President Roosevelt, in an address at the opening of the Conference on Democracy, said he still had hope for the world. It was the duty of Pan-American nations by every honorable means to prevent any future war among themselves. They mus. at the same time make it clear that they will stand shoulder to shoulder against those who might seek to commit acts of aggression against western hemisphere nations, which, however, must also wipe out social or political injustices within their own borders. Interwoven with these problems is the problem of encouragement of greater trade between nations. For his own part he has encouraged the Secretary of State in negotiating reciprocal trade treaties. This has the endorsement of the people of the United States and is sure of the sympathy of the nations here assembled. During a press conference earlier the President said the United States would not join the League of Nations. HECKLED BY COMMUNIST NEW YORK, Dec. 1. (Received Dec. 2, at 10.30 p.m.) The Times Buenos Aires correspondent reports that Liborio Justo. son of the President of Argentina, heckled President Roosevelt at the start of his address at the conference, and shouted “Down with Imperialism.” Argentine dignitaries craned their necks, while two army officers hustled the offender outside and sent him to gaol. Liborio was deported from Brazil in August on the ground that he was a militant Communist.