London, Jan. 4.
Commenting en President Roose-velva message to Congress yesterday, morning newspapers here to-day said apparently the United States was not yel prepared to abandon its policy of isolation although there appears to be Some modification of such a policy.
Conservative newspapers chiefly commented en the President's conals of peaceful solutions of conflicts which are the only ailtimate basis of an orderly existence."
The President told Congress that the Federal Budget could not be balanced at present and disclosed new plans for an attack on mono-politic business abysses, confirming reports that he had prompted recent anti-monopolist speeches by the Assistant Attorney-General, Mr, R. H. Jackson, and the Secretary of Interior, Mr. Harold Ickes, Mr. Roosevelt also called for enactment of recovery and reform legislation, including the wages-hours bill, Although devoting only nine paragraphs of his address to world unrest the President restated America's desire for peace, He forecast, however. the likelihood of an expanded naval construction programme by warning that all pence-loving nations must be strong enough to force peaceful sclutions of international conflicts. "We must keep ourselves adequately strong in self-defence," he said,
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