New York, Feb, 12.
"resident Roosevelt's sudden weekend peace offensive is now being rather hastily toned down," writes the "New York Herald-Tribune" today. It adds: "The best thing that can be hoped for gestures of this kind is that they will prove harmless."
Miss Dorothy Thompson, noted commentator on foreign affairs, writing in the same newspaper, says: "The explanation of the President's move is to be found chiefly in the United States in the Presidential campaign, and only secondarily in—Reuter,
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