Chicago, Oct. 5.
"It is my determination," President. Roosevelt said, "to pursue peace and adopt every practicable measure to avoid involvement in war. N civilization is to survive, the principles of the Prince of Peace must be restored." The peace, freedom and security of ninety per cent. of the world population, the President declared, were being jeopardized by the remaining ten per cent.
Quoting a passage from the book, "Lost Horizon," alluding to the technique of killing, which might endanger every precious thing, the President declared that "if these things happen in other parts of the world let nobody imagine that America will escape or that she may expect mercy.
Dwelling on modern international interdependence, which was preventing any nation isolating itself from upheavals elsewhere, President Roosevelt asserted it was a matter vital io the interest of the people of the "United States that the sanctity of international treaties and the maintenance: of international morality should be restored.
Some countries, he added, were piling up armaments for aggression and others because of fear of aggression. The figure ran from thirty to as high as fifty per cent. of some national budgets. The. proportion of the United States was eleven or twelve per cent. "but we are compelled to look ahead."—Reuter.
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