OSTRICH POLICY

Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 January 1940, Page 6

OSTRICH POLICY

DENOUNCED BY AMERICAN PRESIDENT

Future of United States at Stsdke

HOPELESS OUTLOOK IN WORLD DOMINATED BY FORCE

NEED OF PROMOTING JUST PEACE

(By Telegraph.—Press Association. Copyright.) (Received This Day, .12..) p.in.) k ‘ WASHINGTON, January 3. “I have repeatedly warned people that whether we like it nr not the daily lives of Americans of necessity will reel 1L shook of events in other ccntmente,” President Boosevelt said in his address to Congress, .“ b £ ‘^ re . wishfully insist in innocence or ignorance, that the Se” as a self-contained unit, can live hapinl?' XOSP; ouslv its future secure, inside a high wall of isolation, wniie outside the rest of civilisation and the commerce and culture ° f “fSn SdSandtto feelings.of those who wnrn.the nation that they will never again consent to send our American youth to fight on the soil of Europe, but nobody asked them to consent for nobody expects such an undertaking An oveiSlmina maioritv of our citizens do not abandon in the slightest B their hope and expectation that the United States will net become involved in military participation in the war. Mr Roosevelt said that out of all the military and diplomatic turmoil, propaganda and counter-propagnnda, jv „ two facts which the whole world acknowledged ihe hi.st he said “is that never before has a Government ci the United States done so much to establish and maintain the policy o a good neighbour with its sister nations. Ine second is that in almost every nation there is a true public belief that the United States has been and will continue ro J pote nrtivp factor seeking the re-establishment of peace. . . i nopAmericans everywhere will work out for themselves the several alternatives before world civilisation. We must look ahead and qee the possibilities for our children if the iesv oi tne worm were dominated, by concentrated force alone, Sven today we are a very great and very powerful nation, we must Innk ahead to see the effect on our own future if all the small nations have their independence snatched from them or become Sre appendages to relatively vast and powerful mrlrtary systems. , —