FREE TRADE AND PEACE

Southland Times, Issue 23826, 25 May 1939, Page 5

FREE TRADE AND PEACE

AMERICA’S DOMINANT AIMS DESIRE FOR LIMITATION OF ARMS WASHINGTON, May 21. Opening the national observance of foreign trade week, the Secretary of State (Mr Cordell Hull) broadcast a message from the President (Mr Franklin D. Roosevelt) asserting that pacific intercourse with other countries was the dominant' purpose of the United States’s foreign policy.. Then, speaking for himself, Mr Hull urged the limitation of arms and the discarding of totalitarian trade methods as means to bring about international Mr Roosevelt and Mr Hull, assailed critics of the Administrations programme of reciprocal trade agreements., Mr Roosevelt said: “We have the right to expect a breadth of vision from all groups in our own country. Mr Hull asserted that economic isolation would result in swift disaster for both the United States and the rest of the world, thus “making hollow the repeated declamations that what happens abroad is not of concern to us.’ Mr Hull also reaffirmed his previous denunciations of Italian and German international barter methods, although he mentioned neither country by name. AMERICA ORDERS 150 NEW BOMBERS IMMEDIATE EXPANSION OF AIR FORCE WASHINGTON, May 21. The United States War Department has placed an order worth 15,000,000 dollars for 150 new bombing aeroplanes as part of a mass-production programme immediately to expand the air force.