AMERICA LESS REMOTE
The recent stiffening of the diplomatic attitude of Britain and France finds support in Mr Roosevelt s hint that America may aid peace agencies with economic and, perhaps, military bulwarks, writes Clearway m the Christian Science Monitor. Geneva takes courage. With America supporting the League, in theory if not in fact, repetition of the League commissions misadventures in relation to Manchukuo and Ethiopia would be rendered most unlikely. Faced with militarism and dictatorial dominance, peoples whose hopes revolve about the lode star of liberty lean toward the view: “If fight we must, let us fight for the ideal of world peace r-ther than for the aims of a dominant minority of militarists.” Thus the President’s proposal to “ quarantine ’’ dissident nations and his broad hint of “ intervention for peace ” scatters new hope over the bullet-ploughed European fields. With the United States standing portentously in the background, it would be a suicidal nation or even group of nations which dared to precipitate a war against democracy.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23353, 19 November 1937, Page 10
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