surrounding—the for ign policy of the United States generally deplored in press comments on President Roosevelt's reported statement, The "New York Herald Tribune" says that while President Ro. foreign policies have been mirable as they have been nevertheless when an issue as gin as peace or war is in ihe balance, the right of people to be informed seems a paramount question.
The "Chicago Tribune" states that the "White House has become an Imperial Palace." President Roosevelt, the paper adds, is "acting as if he were absolute ruler of people who have nothing to say about their own destiny, and who could be sold into war as lightly as if they were eighteenth century Hessians."
The "Washington Post" declares that the administration's efforts to facilitate the sale of planes to France is a "possible factor in the slight relaxation of tension noted in Europe. at the present moment."—Reuter.
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