Salt Lake Telegram | 1938-09-20 | Page 1 | U. S. Will Keep out of Europe

U uI U. S S' SI WILL KEEP OUT OF EUROPE Roosevelt Roosevelt- Hull I Take ake Firm Stand StandI I WASHINGTON Sept 20 UP UP- UP The opinio was expressed in high pl places ces toda today that a foreign effort was being made to force the United States to pull Europe's chestnuts out of th the the fire and that Roosevelt Roosevelt Roose Roose- velt administration wouldn't do ft It I That opinion reached the United Tress ri ss' ss froni from ui to the administration that It would appear to represent what new deal policymakers are thinking today To illustrate his conception of the Roosevelt Hull attitude in this crisis in which European powers are juggling jug jug- Juggling juggling gling the fate of Czechoslovakia the United Press Pres's informant recalled events d during ring the Harding administration administration adminis admin and arid remarked in substance There is now an effort being made to make the United States pull Europe's Europe's Europe's Eu Eu- ropes rope's chestnuts out of the fire President Roosevelt however is not going to be another Charles Evans Hughes and hold the bag as s Mr Hughes did after the Washington n arms conference The reference was to the conference conference con con- ference summoned in 1921 which attempted to deal by treaty with Pacific problems and before which Hughes st startled the world with a proposal that naval na powers disarm dis dis- dis- dis arm Some persons persons including an Insider in insider insider in- in sider or two long have believed that naval disarmament w was suggested suggested suggested sug sug- by the British rather than independently developed by Mr Harding and Mr Hughes In support support support sup sup- port of that argument it is is' iscon contended contended con con- tended that the armistice found the United States on the way to naval pr preeminence and that Great Britain could maintain parity only by persuadIng persuading persuading per per- per per- the United States t to scrap ships The alternative would have been Increased British building a costly process and possibly possibly- not feasible for a nation just out of an expensive expensive expensive sive war Coincident with the expression of this chestnut policy Senator William William Wil Wil- liam E. E Borah R. R Idaho back here hereafter hereafter hereafter after a long illness snapped that former French French- Premier P Leon Blum Bluin would better remind his fellow countrymen to observe their own formal Cormal treaty obligations than to ask the United States to take the lead in effecting European peace