Evening star., 1934-01-06

Widespread approval of President
Roosevelt's three-fold program for the
furtherance of world peace is found in
newspaper comment upon his address
before the woodrow Wilson Foundation
dinner Many editors call attention to
the marked similarity in objective be-
tween the President and his Democratic
predecessor, and deem the latter's birth
day a singularly appropriate occasion
for pronouncement by the present ad-
ministration on its foreign policy.
In the most significant public an
nouncement of American foreign policy
by any President since Woodrow Will
son." says the Rochester Times Union,
the President enunciated three vitality
important United States policies. The
first was the stating to the world of a
virtually new conception of the Monroe
Doctrine. The second was an emphatic
Endorsement Of the League of Nations
and a vindication Of its necessity as an
instrument of international understand
ing The third was reStatement of the
Wilsonian doctrine that wars are made
by governments and not by peoples"
President Roosevelt's call for world
peace built upon the conviction of the
masses of world population and sup
ported by an active policy of nom
aggression" declares the Asbury Park
Evening Press, marks him as a worthy
successor to woodrow Wilson, in whose
honor he spoke" This paper adds:
Prior to the address, observers had
spent hours drawing wide line between
the policies of Wilson and Roosevelt.
The variation they found, however, was
solely one of details and methods. In
principle, the ideals of these two great
leaders run parallel"
The Nation was impressed with the
elements of similarity as well as con-
trast between the situations of the two
most recent Democratic Presidents" !"
states the Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
while the Miami Daily News is con-
vinced that under a new President we
see now under way resumption OF the
labors from which Wilson was cut of
at the end of his first term by the
tragedy of war"
The Texarkana Gazette believes that
"the American President has set forth
a formula for world peace that could
be universally adopted, and to which
objection could be found only by ma
ClO1lS WHICH SEEK lHUlNlUudl dsSl dIAOIZC-
ment at the expense of other nations,
and the Abilene Reporter-News de-
scribes the plan as short, simple and
direct" The Charlotte Observer con-
siders Roosevelt's speech intended for
other nations than the United States,
and states that "if the political leaders
can be held in the background and all
nations will follow the Presidents sug-
gestion to sign a pact binding each
nation not to cross its own borders into
the territory Of another nation, we will
have no more wars"
Practical" is the term applied by the
Danbury News-Times to the Presidents
proposal, while the Houston Chronicle
sees in it a strong challenge to the
governments Of other countries to get
immediate results on the world dis
armament program" In the opinion OF
the Roanoke World-News, the American
President made two very substantial
contributions when he declared against
policy of armed intervention in the
affairs Of other nations on the American
continent, and called upon the peoples
of the world, rather than their ambi-
tious representatives, to join in universal
disarmament with the double objective
of making future wars less Immediately
probable, and of exposing to public view
the selfishness of those who would set
the world on fire to carry out their own
personal ambitions"
To the Akron Beacon Journal it was
refreshing to hear direct and force
full words like these when the very ali
of the old world is charged with deceit
and hypocrisy, with believing over the
sacredness of international obligations
negatived by the sinister plans Of sabre
rattlers to reduce these to the pro-