Mrs. Roosevelt well may prove an
[President's course. She has ver7/ Imporiant factor in determining. the decided views on international policy and is far more ready than the President to condemn extreme isolationist Jdoctrines. In a recent interview she, Jgave her views of the war situation "We feel isolated," she said. "We [think we have two oceans which are barrier but they wouldn't be a [barrier five minutes after war started. JWe still can keep a little more objective view point than if we tually were in Europe, but we are nearing the time when we grow closer everyday to other nations."
It was Mrs. Roosevelt and not the President who took an active part in the effort to have the United States Hoin the World Court even to the extent of making a nationwide broadcast onthe theme that the United States could no longer escape its to ternational responsibilities.
'The tradition of isolation, the selfish Jdesire to make a litre profit out of somebody else's war, the feeling that Jother countries are actuated by selfish motives, forms a powerful body of opinion' preventing American" cooperation in efforts to preserve world peace. On the other side is the newer realization that old-fashioned isolation fg. impossible and that even the strictest neutrality would not preserve {the United States from the economic Jconsequences of a conflict however remote coupled with a moral indigna-ion, also new, that Americans should permitted to make profits from the ale of instruments of death.
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