The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-10-27
EUROPE ON SPEECH
 OF ROOSEVELT
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the newspapers prominently display ed 1t with emphasis on the United States desire for @ general disar- mament conference. Some comment in London and Paris reflected be- lief that the president had strength ened the case of democracy as op- posed to dictatorship.
 Tn Geneva, the speech was re- ceived most enthusiastically by league of nations officials who praised the presidents attitude gem erally.
 There was belief in Geneva that MT. Roosevelt was testing out senti- ment for a disarmament conference which, league circles believed, was not particularly favorable at the present moment.
 Criticism of Agreement
 Onl a short time before the pres- ident spoke by radio from the White House last night to the New York Herald Tribune forum in New York, Viscount Halifax, British foreign secretary and one of the cabinet big four" spoke by radio from Lon- don to the same forum, and gave the first official recognition to American criticism of the Munich agreement.
 British newspapers, in their stor- ies of the Roosevelt speech this morning, emphasized the president desire for general disarmament agreement.
 The view here, and in Paris, seemed to be that the president had strengthened the case for democra- cies as against Relationships.
 In Geneva, headquarters of the league of nations, 1t was asserted that the presidents speech stamped him as the outstanding leader of liberal and Democratic forces throughout the world.
 Rome Is Surprised
 In Rome the speech caused sur- prise and 1t was expected that there would be vigorous replies to 1t in the officially inspired newspapers dur ing the next few days.
 In Berlin, the headline on the of- ficial news agency dispatch report ing the presidents speech called 1t "an election speech at the cost of other countries"
 Government quarters here took the view that the presidents mind ran along similar lines to that of Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain as regards the necessity for world appeasement-and for strong arma- ments for the Democracies until such appeasement had been assured.
 Lord Halifax's speech fitted Tn perfectly with the presidents in that it gave the British view not only of the present intermediate European situation but of American criticisms of the coure of the Brit ish and French premiers at Munich.
 Halifax Has Reminder Recent criticisms of the British government in the United States press bring you nearer to us than would an attitude of indifference on your part" Halifax said, but when you feel impelled to criticize may I remind you of something which l have no doubt is true.
 There is, I fancy, little if any real difference between the attitude of the average man and woman here and in your country in their gen. eral outlook on the turbulent cur rents which today are speewing across Europe. Such differences as there may be spring from the map. not from psychology.
 We who are, so to speak, on the spot and have direct part to play must needs exercise restraint In speech and action which is less in- cumbent on your people, widely re- moved as you are from the first im- pact of these events"
 No Right To Criticize
 This attitude, which Lord Hali- fax described bIandly. is the gem eral one in Great Britain when Americans criticize alleged conces- sions to dictators. It is bluntly that