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Show ANNOUNCEMENT BY ROOSEVELT WILL BE SOON President Ends Trip, Silent on Blast Against War hyde park. n. y., Oct e (AP) President Roosevelt strongly indicated today he would call a special session of congress to convene between November 8 and 18, but said he would reserve decision until after af-ter conferences in Washington this week. In a long Interview est the front porch of his Dutchess county home, at the end of hla areas country tour, he said It was a little lit-tle premature to say ' supreme court reorganisation would be la-eluded la-eluded In his program. It was neither in nor out, was the way he put it. He placed at the top ef his program pro-gram waces and hours, surplus crop control, government reorgeaiaation v and regional planning. Family Is Thar Surrounded by his aged mother, who Just returned from a long vacation vaca-tion in Europe; his wife and other members of his family, the presi- dent answered a barrage of questions ques-tions on his trip and future objectives. objec-tives. He refused to amplify his Chicago ' apeech In which he suggestsd a "quarantine" of aggressor nations I and called for "concerted" and "posi- tive" actlon-y peaceful nationa to i restore world stability, i Hs said he had found very little r Interest among ths people as to methods; when asked about court reform, 'but a great deal of interest In objectives. I Ths avsrags man. hs added, want-ad want-ad quicker and cheaper Justice. The impression he got. he said, waa that i the people felt maybe the president was right or wrong, but they wanted I the objective hs was aftsr. Method Cited I He said thfe question of additional ( district Judges, Included In his orlg-I orlg-I Insl defeated court program and ; recommended favorably by the re- cent conference of senior circuit , court Justices, would be one method he would discuss after returning to Washington Friday morning. Asksd if he found any difference tn the attitude of congress and the people with whom hs talked on the , court, he said it dspended on what I attitude the questioner meant. ; He said there were 433 attitudes . In the house and M in the aenate. ' He said he did not want to specify . any date for a special session now, ' but suggested somewhere between November t and 1 would give congress con-gress tlms to get most of its spsde work dons before the Christmas holidays. At Grand Forks, N. D., hs said, I speed was essential on surplus crop control legislation If 1(38 crops were to benefit by the new program. Farm Prospects Liked Asked his impressions of ths 8000-n 8000-n lie transcontinental Journey, the president said he found ths crop sit-; sit-; ustion infinitely better west of the Mississippi than at any tlms in the last four yesrs and an overwhelm- (Contlnuad nn Pas Two) (Column On l Flimsy Bridge Speeds Invaders in Chinese War NIPPON TROOPS ADVANCE ON SHANGHAI OVER PONTOON BRIDGE Japanese engineers constructed this span to replace one destroyed by retreating Chinese 3 'Aggressor' Nations Strike Back At U. S. President in Blunt Warnings mankind. This Is greatly deplored by ths Japanese people. "If the 'haves' refuss to concede rightful demsnds to ths 'have note,' peace may be most difficult to maintain." LONDON. OcL IN3) The British govsrnment today decided to ask President Roosevelt lust how Informed Psris circles said reaction re-action of the more radical sections of the French "popular front" to President Rooeevelt's remarks waa being anxiously awaited. It la feared extreme leftists might bs emboldened to demsnd Immediate French aid to ths 8panlsh government, (ContinueS from Page One) ths Jspaness military campaign In China, replied only with a promise the Jspaness empire will throw all her resources Into ths undeclared Sino-Japanese wsr. "Ws cannot stay our hands out of rsspect for a world opinion formed on the basis of dispatches rewritten rewrit-ten by Chinese governmental officials." offi-cials." he declared. "We believe the surest wsy to minimise suffering is to speed the conclusion. We will do everything possible to speed ths snd and bring ths situation back to normal." A foreign office apokesmsn, alao replying directly to Mr. Roosevelt, said Nippon wanta only "peaceful development" of the Asiatic continent. conti-nent. "Japan's only demand." he said, "is that her people ahould be entitled en-titled to the freedom of movement land happiness which Is rightly i theirs. ! "Ths population of Japan la I crammed into a limitsd area and has mors thsn doubled in ths past half century. If Japan wanta to send her people abroad, all outleta are denied them by foreign countries. coun-tries. Ths Isw sxcluding Japaneas waa enacted by the United States in 1924 against ths natural law of far the United States will go to collaborate In restraining an aggressor ag-gressor nstion. During lengthy discussion of the president's Chicago peace addreaa at ita weekly meeting, the cabinet decided to instruct Sir Ronald Llnd-aay, Llnd-aay, Britiah ambaaaador to Washington, Wash-ington, to Inquire Into tha exact meaning of tha address. In particular, Britain wanta to know what atepa the United States would be willing to tsks against an aggressor. PARIS, Oct. 6 (INS) Keen pleasure was ths reaction of official French clrclea today to the Chicago speech by President Roosevelt asking ask-ing for a "sanitary cordon" around trouble-making nations. A French foreign office spokes-msn spokes-msn declared his government waa "most impressed" with the speech, and added: "I do not think It changea essentially es-sentially America'a position, but It gives ths countries working for peace atrong moral support." MOSCOW, Oct (UP) Neither press nor official comment on President Pres-ident Roosevelt's Chicsgo speech on foreign affaire waa offered in Moscow Mos-cow today. The newspsper Iivestia, official organ of tha central executive committee com-mittee of the soviet union, carried a complete account of the apeech. Other newspapers displsyed it prominently prom-inently and carried diplomatic comment com-ment from Washington. SHANGHAI, Oct. 6 (UP) A sharp turn-about in the Chinese view of American policy waa emphasised em-phasised today aa people excitedly discussed President Roosevelt's peace speech. . Chlness university women In the Shanghai area cabled Mrs. Roosevelt Roose-velt snd women's organisations in ths Unitsd States, expreaalng hope that the United States would take ths lesd In hslting Jspsness sggres-sion. sggres-sion. The Roosevelt speech caused general gen-eral rejoicing, and atatements that the United States. "China's trsdi-tlonsl trsdi-tlonsl friend," waa friendly again instead of aloof. |