| Show S A Formula for Peace TF IF ITS inconsistency with his projects for ceo eco 1 I r pressure against nations failing to cooperate cooperate co co- co operate with the United States States' in exchange of goods goads is passed over Secretary r Hulls Hull's formula for world peace through unity in an tn economic program outlines about the most sensible enterprise enterprise enter enter- prise rise sponsored by any statesman here or abroad His proposal rests upon the assumption that economic stability must be achieved before we can hope to rid the world of war threats No assumption can be more mort realistic than that Back of every war var scare there is a profound maladjustment exerting intolerable pressure upon a people or a group of states Because disarmament and security conferences ignore this fact is one of the chief reasons why they fail Secretary Hull believes that the tangled economic situation must be untangled Then it will not be so difficult to build for enduring enduring endur endur- ing trig peace The necessity was never more ap apparent apparent apparent ap- ap parent he says for lor the various countries o othe of the world to give immediate attention to the matter of adopting a sound and comprehensive economic program both domestic and international ti nal and carrying it forward to the end that the normal processes of domestic and international international international finance and commerce may be restored and tens of millions of unemployed wage- wage earners may be S S This he argues would afford a solid foun bun foundation foundation dation on which to rebuild stable peace and political structures It is always easy easy to explain explain ex ex- plain the flaring of conflict by imputing na national national national na- na greed an and a warlike spirit to peoples or to call armament makers hard names and charge them with instigating ting wars fo for private profit That is being done right now with re respect respect re- re to Japan as her course in Manchuria and China is condemned widely But what is very generally overlooked is the fact that Japan has faced the prospect of ofa a trade depression and a wave of un unemployment even more severe than that through which we have been pass pass- ing In order to a economic disaster the Japanese Japanese Japanese Jap Jap- anese have that they must gain access to fresh territory that would not only provide new markets but also needed raw materials Japan is the most densely populated nation in the world Her people live in square miles of territory Th The area of her principal islands is only square miles less than that of Cal California ornia Of this only 15 per cent is arable arabic The average Japanese farm farmis is only acres Her natural nat resources are arc almost negligible Japan has 2774 individuals to every square mile of arable arabic land There is isa isa isa a square mile of arable arabic land for every in individuals individuals individuals in- in in the United Stat States s. s The meaning o of these simple facts and of f many others almost almost almost al- al most as important must be taken into account as Japans Japan's warlike spirit is appraised With many other countries as with Japan there are economic inequalities that drive peoples peoples peo peo- ples pies to the verge of desperation Ironing out these thes inequalities and making stabilization possible possible possible pos pos- sible would remove most of the causes which impel nations to resort to arms It would be befar befar befar far more potent as a peace preserver than al alliances alliances al- al assuming to set up a balance of power This leaves humanity just where it is and compels compels compels com com- it to endure afflictions through fear but fails to provide any machinery for reli relieving ving Internal pressures If Secretary Hull can move to effect economic stabilization on a world scale his service will outweigh many times the ef efforts efforts efforts ef- ef forts of those who have merely succeeded in negotiating multi power treaties for peace which become scraps of paper when the conditions the they impose can be lived up to no longer |
