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ROOSEVELT MESSAGE

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Anglo-American Trade

It is not the case, as some re- ports have suggested, that the Anglo-American negotiations for Ja trade agreement have been completed and that the agree- ment only waits to be initialled. Not for some time yet can the negotiations be finished.

any

It is not that there has been any hitch. The negotiations are in fact going almost exactly ac- cording to the expectations of - the Board of Trade. The Board, especially since the negotiations First Mr. Cordell Hull, then began ten days behind schedul Mr. Woodring, the Secretary for led time, did not look for an agree War, and now President Roosevelt ment before the second half of himself. and conveying warn- May. The negotiating of ings that American public opin-commercial treaty is always ion is moving rapidly away from long and intricate business, and isolationism to recognition of the this will be a comprehensive com- fact that America cannot refuse mercial agreement able, it is in- to concern itself with events indicated, to stand on its merits as other parts of the globe. Presi-a commercial agreement, though, dent Roosevelt's message was to it is argued, it will be none the the Jewish Convention and its im-less valuable politically for being plications were less direct than sound commercially. those in Mr. Woodring's challeng-

ing speech last week. There re- Imained nevertheless a clear in-

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dication that the Administration Parliamentary Manners is becoming less circumspect in

commentary on world affairs, M. Leon Degrelle, the Rexist which can only be interpreted to leader, who was in London the mean that daily, as the world's day after Mr. Shinwell slapped turmoi! grows, more and more Commander Bower's face in the Americans are moving to` Mr. House of Commons, must have Hull's position or beyond it to smiled sardonically at the fuss active belligerence of thought.

made over that incident when he It is coming to be recognised remembered the battle which took that the position of the United place in the Belgian Chamber in States in the world is such that February last year. In that lit- it cannot live apart. People are tle dust-up the Minister of Public heginning to question the validity Works was struck on the jaw of an ostrich neutrality which re-by a Rexist; M. Max, the Mayor fuses to recognise the extent to of Brussels, received a weighty which the United States is "en-code-book. .(on Parliamentary tangled" in the economic life of manners!) in the face; and Mme. the world. And to question the Ader, a Communist and the only morality of a safety-first attitude woman deputy, picked up a Min- which denies any obligation to ister's telephone and flung it at help uphold international stand-the Rexist benches. Her aim, ards of law and order.

however, was not equal to her Denouncing dictatorship, how-bellicose design, and her part in. ever, will not heal the world's the struggle remained a harmless hurt, any more than war will gesture. But she had friends make the world safe for demo-who were not so inefficient, and cracy. But Mr. Hull's firm

be after a free fight which lasted for lligerence is preferable to the some time the deputies found it unstable isolationism of Ameri- necessary to retire to have their cans who refuse to co-operate for bruises attended do. After that, peace but are already mentally what is a mere slap in the face? bayonetting half a dozen nations But everything is a matter of and indulging a hate that even-degree, and even the Belgian tually would find expression in battle seems like a bout of San- war. There is no sound ground for day-school wrist-slapping.com- international peace except Mr. pared with what happened a few Hull's formula

support of years ago the

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treaties plus change by peaceful (Mexico) State Chamber of De- methods. There might be more puties. Political feeling against active measures to remove peace the Governor started a free fight fully injustices which are now in the Chamber during which being removed by new injustices three persons were killed, in- and the suppression of freedom. cluding the Sergeant-at-Arms. But international anarchy cannot The immediate cause of the fight be tolerated. The world has be- was a bootblack in the public come too small. The changing gallery who hooted the deputies.