Evening star., 1938-10-27
PRESIDENT WARNS
USERS OF FORCE
Despots Indicted as Peace
Destroyers Are Told to
Stop War Threats.
(Tert of President Roosepelts
speech, page A-4.)
By the Associated Press.

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NEW YORK, Oct. 27.-The United
States, through President Roosevelt,
served notice on the world today 1t
would protect the Western Hemisphere
from foreign interference and, while
desiring disarmament, would not dis
arm while neighbor nations arm to
the teeth"
The President, in his first pro-
nouncement on American foreign
policy since the Czechoslovakian crisis,
made virtually precedent-shattering
condemnation of nations which en-
ploy force, exile and repression as
instruments of national policy.
He declared that the governments
of foreign nations must not threaten
the world with the disaster of war"
and asserted no useful purpose is
served to suggest either to the Amer
ican people or the peoples of other
nations that the American Govern
ment in its policies, its practices and
its servants are actuated by motives
of dishonor or corruption.
ITO do So" he said, lis, of necessity,
an attack on the American system
Of constitutional representative gov
ernment ITSELF"
The President voiced his views last
night in an address broadcast from
the White House to the 9th annual
New York Herald Tribune Forum on
Current Problems
Follows Hoover and Halifax.
The Chief Executive followed his
predecessor, Herbert Hoover, who urged
the United States to initiate resumption
of world economic conferences as a
vital step towards peace, and Viscount
Halifax. the British foreign minister.
The British cabinet minister, in a
broadcast from London, urged the
United States to join hands with
Great Britain in establishing world
peace and again defended his nations
course in the recent crisis.
Sitting before a microphone in the
oval room of the White House, Presi-
dent Roosevelt deplored ornaments
competition, but asserted that until
foreign nations give something more
than verbal assurances that they de-
sire dlsarmament-until disarmament
discussions are actually started the
United States must arm Ito meet with
success any application of force
against U.S."
And without mentioning either the
Munich conference which averted war
over the partitioning of Czechoslo-
vakia or measures taken against racial
groups in certain European coun-
tries, the President arraigned condi-
tions under which there can "be no
peace"
No Peace in Use of Force.
ut is becoming increasingly clear"
he said, that peace by fear has no
higher or more enduring quality than
peace by the sword.
There can be no peace if the
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recurrent sanctification of sheer force.
There can be no peace If national
policy adopts as a deliberate instru-
ment the threat of war.
There can be no peace If national
policy adopts as a deliberate instru-
ment the dispersion all over the world
of millions of helpless and prosecuted
wanderers with no place to lay their
head.
There can be no peace if humble
men and women are not free to think
their own thoughts, to express their
own feelings, to worship God.
There can be no peace if economic
resources that ought to be devoted to
social and economic reconstruction are
to be diverted to an intensified COM
petition in armaments which will
merely heighten the suspicious and
(See ROOSEVELT, Page A-41