Washingion, Feb, 11. PEACE and economic sanity in the post-war period were emphasized by Mr, Cordell Hull, the Secretary of State, at a press conference here yesterday, as the objectives being sought in the talks between the United States and other neutrals and the mission in Europe of the Under. -Secretary of State, Mr. Sumner Welles.
Mr. Cordell Hull said the United States, for some time past, had been doing everything possible to keep alive the basic ideas of formulaes and programmes for a sound, stable period of international relations after war had ended.
He explained that the key tones of this policy were the halting and curtailing of armaments and liberal commercial policies, It world to achieve those objective adoption by all nations of sound, was necessary, he said, for the es if there was to be economic sanity in the post-war period rather than totalitarianism.
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