THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 16, 1040
MORE THAN WORDS President Roosevelt's Pan-America Speech Force With Force, If The Challenge Is Ever Given
WASHINGTON, TO-DAY.
"THE CO-OPERATIVE PEACE OF THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE WAS NOT CREATED BY WISHING, AND WILL REQUIRE MORE THAN WORDS TO MAINTAIN IT," DEGLARED PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT YESTERDAY IN AN ADDRESS TO THE PAN-AMER’CAN UNION HERE.
"We have only asked the world to go with us in the path of peace. But we shall be able to keep that way only if we are prepared to meet force with force, if the challenge is ever given.'
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ROOSEVELT happened in the Old World directly and powerfully BLUNTNESS
Earlier in his speech President Roosevelt said that what
affected the peace and well-being of the New.
It was for this reason that they had adopted procedure
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enabling them to meet any eventuality.
"At Lima we agreed to stand, to- gether and defend and maintain the absolute integrity of every American nation from any attack, direct or in- direct, from beyond the seas.
"At Panama we worked out ways and means for keeping war away from this hemisphere.
POSITIVE VALUES
"I pray God we shall not have to do more than that but should it be pe- cessary I am convinced we should be wholly s'.ccessful..
"Thic inner strength of a group of free people is irresistable. when they ard prepared to act.
́ ́affirm that life must be based on positive values. The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate, since any nation OF group of nations which employs ha- tred is eventually torn to pieces by the hatred within itself.
"The value of a belief in humanity is always stronger than the value of a bellet in force, because force at last turns inward, and if that occurs, each man or group of men is finally com- pelled to measure his strength against his own brother."
GOOD NEIGHBOURS
President Roosevelt at the outset said that peace between the American nations remained secure owing to the instruments they had created em- bodying in great measure the princi- ples on which an enduring peace must be based throughout the world.
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GRAVE ATMOSPHERE
Washington, To-day. President Roosevelt's demeanour delivering his speech to the Pan-American Conference yester- day was grave.
Equally grave was his audience, which included the diplomatic re- presentatives of Britain, France, China, Australia, Finland and 21 American Republics.
Nations not represented includ- ed Germany, Russia, Japan, Italy, Norway, Sweden, the Netherlands and Denmark. Reuter.
KEEPING
OUT OF WAR
APPLAUDED
New York, To-day.
The "New York Times" in an editorial supports Presi- dent Roosevelt's blunt con-
BRITISH DIPLOMATIC DRIVE
London, To-day.
Tho conversations between British Ministers in the Balkans and Foreign Office officials end- ed last evening and the Ministers are expected to return to their posts within a few days.
The conversations, have given satisfaction in the various de- partments concerned and the way is now open for a British drive to strengthen the existing links be- 'tween the peoples of the Balkans and the Western Democracles.— Reuter.
GERMANY'S LOSS. AT NARVIK
London, To-day.
By the British occupation
demnation of the German ac-of Narvik the Germans are
tion in Scandinavia.
deprived of about one-quar theter of their total ore supplies
"American neutrality," says paper, "does not imply a cowardly
silence in the face of a brutal invasion but their loss is even greater
of small countries.
"The President expressed the feelings of an overwhelming mas jority of our people." The editorial, commenting on the Scandinavian merchant marine, says: "Hitler has generously handed back to the Allies more than all of their merchant shipping tonnage sunk by German submarines and mines since the start of the war."
"-Reuter.
than this, stated a prominent iron and steel expert yester- day.
The expert told Reuter that since the war began 'the total effective iron- making resources of Germany had been cut by a full half.
They must have rich ora from Scandinavia to mix with their own: low-grade mineral to permit the operation of the baslo Bessemer or Thomas process, which is the foun- dation of their steal ́Industry in "normal times, -
Washington, To-day.U.S. TO TAKE The expert said the Germans have
"I hope and think we are
going to keep out of war," GREENLAND?
Admiral
Stark told the
Senate naval committee yesterday testifying on the proposed $65,000,000 Naval Expansion Bill.
Admiral Stark said in the past the United States had entered every war unprepared but lack of preparation had never deterred the American peo- ple from deciding on war when they felt the necessity for it, now were they Peace reigned in the Western Hem-likely to be so deterred in future. isphere because each nation agreed to It certainly seems essential to-day, respect the integrity and independence very much more than in 1922, to sup- of others, because they agreed, as port at least a 5/5/3 ratio, he added. neighbours should, to mind their own business, and renounced the right to Interfere in each other's domestic af- fairs, because they agreed to settle any dispute by friendly negotiation rather than by force.
Peace reigned because they recog- nised the principle that only through mutually beneficial international and
·economic relations could each have adequate access to materials and op- portunities necessary to raising the. level of the economie. well-being peoples.
INTERNATIONAL ORDER
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"We of this hemisphere do not need to seek a new international order; we Iave already found it.
"This wasn't done by hysterical outeries or · violent movements of troops.
-Reuter.
(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL")'
CHICAGO, TO-DAY. EXTENSION, OF THE MONROE DOCTRINE TO GREENLAND IS FIRMLY ADVOCATED · BY MR. FRANK KNOX, PUBLISHER OF THE "CHICAGO DAILY NEWS.”
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only one way of countering the Nar- vik blow and that is by the ruthless collection of scrap, even to the point of disorganising general industry by lifting secondary railway lines and pulling down structures.---Reuter.
SLEEPLESS THROUGH STOMACH PAINS
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The United States should operate in any temporary annexation
or New of Greenland by Canada foundland, he says.
Another possibility would be for the United States to take over the sover- eignty of Greenland until the end of the war. Havas.
ITALY BEGINNING
A CAMPAIGN
Rome, To-day.
SIGNOR GAYDA, IN AN article last night which can be regarded as expressing the official Italian view, accuses France of pursuing an anti-Italian policy since the Treaty of Versailles.
He adds that France, which is poor- "We didn't stamp out nations, er in man-power than Italy, possess→ capture governments or uproot. Inno-ed liberty of action in both the At- cant people from their homes. lantic and Mediterranean, whereas "We didn't invent absurd doctrines the centre of Italian life is the Med of race supremacy or claim dictator-terranean. ship through universal revolution."-
France's polloy and positions
the Mediterranean, he states, pro- tent not only national but Imperial Interesta.
Italy recognises these interests but cannot agree to their constituting a system of hegemony which superim- poses itself upon the elementary needs of life of other nations.Reu
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