Popular demand for the avoidance of possible war-provoking incidents caused the United States to undertake large evacuations in the Ethiopian and Spanish conflicts. The Government followed the same policy in China, but appears even more anxious to avoid incidents there, Observers here believe Americans abroad fail to comprehend the tremendous depth of feeling and the neces:
Government to consider it in connection with diplomatic moves in the Far East.
It was believed that President Roosevelt's Block Island statement chiefly answered the growl: iticism of Americans-for remaining in China at all The President's comment did not differ essentially from the earlier pronouncements of the Secretary of State, Mr. Cordell Hull, but his language was stronger, aparently because it was intended to assuage peace groups, editorial writers and others who were attacking the Government's policy of maintaining position in China.
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