The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-04-25

presence of NaA troops in Green land, said 1t had no knowledge Of any Axis occupation of that Danish territory.
 The president was emphatic In defending the right of this country to extend its neutrality patrol wherever necessary to defend the safety and security of this hemis- pherc. The patrol, he said, could be extended to all of the seven seas If such a step were required to pro- tect our interests.
 Patrol Extended
 To the denial that the United States plans to institute conveys for getting American materials to Bri- tain, the President added that the patrol in the Atlantic is being ex- tended. The patrolling U. s. ships and planes could keep British ships appraised of the presence of German raiders in Atlantic waters.
 He did not say whether the patrol would take more direct action to protect supply ships moving to Bri- tain.
 Nor did he say how far 1t Is being extended. But he did remark that he hoped the patrol would keep the sea lanes to Greenland safe.
 The most talked of plan in that connection Is the extension of the U. s. Neutrality Patrol at least 300 miles off the recently acquired American bases in Newfoundland and possibly Greenland. Warships and planes sweeping those areas would cover almost half of the sail- ing distance from Halifax, Nova Scotia, to the British Isles.
 His Own Attitude
 Mir. Roosevelt said that the ad- dresses of Hull and Knox reflected his own attitude and, he believed, that . vast majority of the Amer ican people Tn contrast to such views, he said, are the defeatist ex- pressions of Q minority of which Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh Is an example.
 The Knox-Hull speeches attracted considerable congressional comment. on-interventionists saw in them hints Of a U. s. convoy system but supporters of administration for eign policy differed. Typical of the latter group was the remark of as- sistant senate Republican Leader Warren R. Austin of Vermont who said:
 Tt means we are going to get the goods there: that we are going to keep our promises. do not say that 1t means conveys"
 MT. Roosevelt was not specific about the exact operations of the neutrality patrol, but he said that 1t was being extended and will be extended.
 Like old Pioneers
 He compared the patrols to those sent out by pioneers crossing the prairies in wagon trains to deter mine whether there were Indians ahead. These pioneer patrols, he continued, went out 200 or 300 miles because 1t wasn't safe to wait until Indians were discovered only two miles away. The president f1atly de- nied that the government had any idea of instituting conveys.
 The president said that U. s. na. val action in the Atlantic has con- stituted a patrol for . year and . half and still Is Q patrol.
 When 1t was suggested at his press conference that these patrols might be in effect conveys establish. ing safe lanes through which ships could travel, the president remarked that one could not turn COW into Q horse by simply calling 1t e horse.
 Defines Difference
 Asked to define the difference be- tween patrols and conveys, the pres ident said that conveying involved the escorting of merchant ships in a group to protect them from attack. Patrols, he said, involve reconnais- sance over certain areas of the oceans to find out if any aggressive ships might be coming into the a 150 ner cent liinatic could imagine