New York, Apr. 17.
The press here this morning continued to voice approval of President Roosevelt's message to Herr Hitler and Signor Mussolini, but stressed that a negative reply from the two dictators should be expected. The consider, however, that the message is a strengthening factor for Great Britain's policy"of resistance, "President Roosevelt's initiative cannot, therefore, be considered as having failed simply because it did not what could not have been expected," the "New York Times" stated. "The President sought to point out the aggressors without any possible error before the outbreak of hostilities, and to rally world public opinion to the side of the eventual victims. The President kiho? two birds with one stone.
"St was not a coincidence," states thie "Herald-Tribune{' "that the President's message was drafted in such terms that if it were rejected by the heads of the Governments to which it was addressed it will appear an accusation of their policy, as a for the Franco-Britist coalition, and as a warning to the Powers of the axis."
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