Evening star., 1939-08-25
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Texts Of the messages sent last
night by President Roosevelt to
Adolf Hitler and President Moscickl
Of Poland follow:
To Chancellor Hitler:
His excellency, Adolf Hitler,
Chancellor of the German Reich,
Berlin.
In the message which I sent to
you on April IA last I stated that
1t appeared to me that the leaders
of great nations had it in their
power to hberate their peoples from
the disaster that impended, but that
unless the effort were Immediately
made with good will on all sides to
find a peaceful and constructive So
luton Of existing controversies, the
crisis which the world was confront
ing must end in catastrophe. Today
that catastrophe appears to be very
near at hand indeed.
To the message which sent to
you last April I have received no
reply, but because Of my confident
belief that the cause of world peace
which is the cause of humanity it
self-rises above all other considera-
tions, I am again addressing myself
to you with the hope that the war
which impends and the consequent
disaster to all peoples everywhere
may yet be averted.,
Three Methods Presented.
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ness-and I am likewise urging the
President of the republic of Poland
that the governments of Germany
and of Poland agree by common ac-
cord to refrain from any positive act
of hostility for a reasonable and
stipulated period, and that they
agree likewise by common accord to
solve the controversies which have
arisen between them by one of the
three following methods: First, by
direct negotiation; second, by sub
mission of these controversies to an
impartial arbitration in which they
can both have confidence, or, third,
that they agree to the solution of
these controversies through the pro-
cedure of conciliation, selecting as
conciliator or moderator a national
of one of the traditionally neutral
states of Europe, or national of
one of the American republics which
are all of them free from any con-
nection with or participation in Eu-
ropean political affairs.
Both Poland and Germany being
sovereign governments, it is under
stood, of course, that upon resort to
any one of the alternatives I sug-
gest, each nation will agree to ac-
cord complete respect to the inde-
pendence and territorial integrity
of the other.
U. S. People Oppose Conquest.
The people of the United States
are as one In their opposition to
policies of military conquest and
domination. They are as one in re-
jecting the thesis that any ruler, or
any people, possess the right to
achieve their ends or objectives
through the taking of action which
will plunge countless millions of
people into war and which will bring
distress and suffering to every nation
of the world, belligerent and neutral,
when such ends and objectives, so
far as they are just and reasonable,
can be satisfied through processes of
peaceful negotiation or by resort to
judicial arbitration.
appeal to you in the name of the
people of the United States, and
believe in the name of peace loving
men and women everywhere, to
agree to the solution of the con-
tro~rsies existing between your gov
eminent and that of Poland through
the adoption Of one of the alterna-
tive methods have proposed.
need hardly reiterate that should
the governments of Germany and of
Poland be willing to solve their dif-
ferences in the peaceful manner sug-
gested, the Government of the
United States still stands prepared
to contribute its share to the solu-
| ton of the problems which are en-
dangering world peace in the form
set forth in my message of April IA
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT.