Evening star., 1938-10-04

shattered. The social structure of
every country involved may well
be completely wrecked.
"The United States has no politi-
cal entanglements. It Is caught in
no mesh Of hatred. Elements of
all Europe have formed its civiliza-
ton.
"The supreme desire of the
American people is to live in peace.
But in the event of a general war
they face the fact that no nation
can escape some measure Of the
consequences Of such q world catas-
trophe.
THE traditional policy of the
United States has been the further
ance of the settlement Of inter-
national disputes by pacific means.
1t Is my conviction that all people
under the threat Of war today pray
that peace may be made before,
rather than after, war"
Kellogg Pact Cited.
He continued by calling attention to
the obligations of all of the countries
OF the world to the Kellogg BRAND pact
OF 1928 to solve controversies only by
pacific methods, and to the means
which civilized nations possess to solve
peacefully their differences, and con-
cluded by saying:
"On behalf of the 130, 10000 of
people of the United States of
America and for the sake of
humanity everywhere, most
earnestly appeal to you not to
break off negotiations looking to
peaceful, fair and constructive
settlement Of the questions at
issue.
L earnestly repeat that so long
as negotiations continue differ
ences may be reconciled. Once
they are broken off reason is
banished and force asserts itself
And force produces no solu-
ton for the future good of
humanity
BY 10 o'clock in the morning the
President had received replies from
the Prime Ministers of Great Britain
and OF France assuring him Of their
desire to avoid recourse to force and
OF their willingness to search for a
peaceful solution. About three hours
later moving message in the same
sense was received from the President
OF Czechoslovakia. On the evening
OF the same day the President re-
celved response to his appeal from
the Chancellor of the German Reich
assuring the President that he appre-
ciated fully the lofty intent of the
Presidents appeal, and that he shared
IN every respect the Presidents opinion
regarding the unforeseeable conse-
quences of European war. The
German Chancellor advanced the
thesis that the situation which had
arisen was a result Of the injustices OF
the Versailles treaty and a result of the
failure OF the League of Nations ia
carry out its just obligations. He con-
Guided his reply to the President by
stating:
1T is not Germany who is to
blame for the fact that there is
any Sudeten German problem at
all, and that the present unjus-
unable circumstances have arisen
from 1t. The terrible fate of the
people affected by the problem no
longer admits of a further post
ponement OF its solution. The pos
slbllities Of arriving at a lust set
tlement by agreement are there
lore exhausted with the proposals
OF the German memorandum Tof
september % to the British Pre-
mierl. It does not lest with the
German government. but with the
Czechoslovakian government alone.
to decide, whether it wants peace
or war"
Invasion Seen Close at Hand.
throughout the night of September
26, and as the hours advanced during
the day of September 81, there was
cumulative evidence that the situation
IN Europe was moving rapidly toward
an apparently inevitable climax. From
the reply made by the German Chan
cellor IN his message to the President
as we'll as from information which
reached the President from our Ameri-
can ENJOYS abroad, the conclusion
seemed 1nescapable that negotiations
nao ceased and that Germany was
prepared to move in accordance with
the terms Of her communication to the
other powers.
Believing, as this Government does
IN the moral force Of public opinion,
the President, early in the afternoon
OF September 81, sent urgent instruc-
ions to our representatives through