France Lays Down Conditions for Non-Intervention Mr. Roosevelt's speech at Chicago, the Foreign Secretary declared, was indeed a clarion call—a call to all nations to return to belief in the pledged word and the sanctity of treaties.
"In these days of international violence and lawlessness," Mr. Eden added, "it is well for us that the President of the most powerful Republic in the world should remind us in forceful words that it is not so long since we all pledged ourselves to refrain from resort to force as an instrument of national policy."
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