Washington, Sept. 27.
RESIDENT Roosevelt proposed today that negotiations over Sudetenland might be widened into a "conference of all nations directly interested" but did not reveal whether the United States would attend.
In view of the close sequence of Mr. Neville Chamberlain's speech and the close contact maintained with the British and French Governments by the American Ambassadors, Mr. Joseph Kennedy and Mr. William C. Bullitt, the Government's message had the appearance of parallel action.
Mr. Roosevelt said that if a conference were held, "such a meeting to be held immediately on some neutral spot in Europe would offer the opportunity for this and correlated questions to be solved in a spirit of justice and fair dealing and in all probability with greater permanence.
It was believed that this was the President's ultimate intervention and observers were convinced that the United States emphatically will not participate in any conference.
The message followed a lengthy conference among the President, the Secretary of State, Mr. Cordell Hull, and Mr. Bernard Baruch, member of the Advisory Committee of the Council of National Defence during the Great War.
The President's second plea for a peaceful settlement of the European crisis was prepared in the utmost secrecy and journalists were unaware of its import until they arrived at the State Department in response to a summons.
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