Washington, Sept. 26. Na dramatic eleventh-hour move to preserve world peace President Roosevelt today personally appealed to Herr Adolf fuehrer of Germany, and Dr. Eduard Benes, President of Czechojovakia, "on behalf of 130,000,000 people of the United States... ud for the sake of humanity. +not to break off negotiations naking toward a peaceful, fair and constructive settlement of the questions at issue,"
In simple and' unmistakable language, dispensing with the sual ambiguous diplomatic verbiage, Mr. Roosevelt said ernestly repeat that so long as negotiations continue, all differ-nees may be reconciled.
Once negotiations are broken off, reason banished and force will assert itself.
And force provides no elution for the future good of humanity."
World Peace Endangered.
The text of President Roosevelt's seventh-hour appeal for peace de-jared: "The fabric of peace on the conment. of Europe if not throughout world is in immediate danger.
consequences of its rupture anna be calculated. Should hostiliies break out, the lives of millions nen, women and children in every country involved would most certain-y be Jost under circumstances of un-peakable horror. The economic tem of every. country involved nay: well be completely wrecked.
"The supreme desire of the Ameri-an people is to live in peace. but in he event of a general war they face he fact that no nation can escape ome measure of the consequences of uch a world catastrophe..... Whatever nay be the differences and controvert ies at issue, and however dificult a yaeifie settlement may be, T am per-unoded there is no problem so dimeult wid so pressing for solution that it mnnot be justly solved by, resort to feason rather than to force."
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