Salt Lake Telegram | 1935-09-14 | Page 4 | Italy Standing Alone

I j Italy Standing Alone Samuel Hoare's EVENTS VENTS Si Sir t unequivocal statement of Britain's de decision to stand behind the League of Nations instrumentalities instrumentalities ns ru- ru mentalities for pe peace ce in their entirety leave Italy in complete isolation France evidently willing willingto t to abandon pressing for English pledges to bolster bolster bolte bol bol- ster te French policies respecting Germany and andi i Austria holds the fate of the league in her hands If she takes akes her herstand stand along with Russia t Sweden Netherlands and Belgium in virtual I acceptance of the British for formula ula world opinion t. t a ion will submerge the thc unyielding Italians Premier Pret Pre Pre- t micr mier Laval's plea to Italy as a friend and his e eloquent address to the league leagle assembly lacked almost nothing in pledging unconditional willingness will will- P f gness to go the limit with the he other powers sanctions and all Our obligations are inscribed F in the covenant he declared with fervor t f France will not evade those obligations v States has voice at Geneva The United no nC vo ce but yet our voice was heard there Secretary II Hulls Hull's impressive statement was more than a plea to Italy to renounce her aggressive r Directed to no nation but by indirection to all 63 signatories to the Kellogg peace pact it called upon them to observe their pledge to toI I maintain m world peace We could have gone farther only if this government had formally invoked the multilateral ral peace trE treaty aty More important at Geneva than as a warn warning ng to Muss Mussolini Mus Mus- s lini Secretary Hulls Hull's recapitulation of steps taken by the United States in contributing in r every practicable way toward a settlement of the present dispute between Italy and Ethiopia bolst bolstered red the c courage urage of league members to up uphold uphold uphold up- up hold the covenant in unity and strength This could only be interpreted in Europe as the full moral support of a nation under compulsion com corn f of its own law to remain a neutral Enactment of the neutrality law in the closing cbs clos f. f ing days of the congress places the United States I in th the anomalous position of being required by byE byr bythe r the act to remain in iii isolation in time of war E while we are bound by the Kellogg pact to take ake our st stand nd with the other signatories against Ir an aggressor nati nation m also pledged under the treaty i I Utah's Senator Thoma Thomas in Washington J J Thursday night voiced the feelings gs of the peas peas' peo pea peo- s' s pl pie of the United States A member of oft the foreign foreign for- for f. f i eign relations committee of the senate he said must V This time w we mean it We stay out T The intensity of the effort to prevent war now F in progress at Geneva is evidence that world Is sentiment is opposed to war The senator t f. f logically pointed o out t that knowing wing far more morel l about international wars in 1935 than they did didin f in World war days the people of the world are areE E in an attitude that is encouraging to all who d. d desire peace Pointing out that the theory of neutrality is isI Va I 1 ba based ed upon upon a fallacy and ad that tha the application n of off f neutrality is utterly impossible yet he made clear to the thinking cit citizen zen that our recently enacted l law faw w is deserving of wholehearted support sup- sup c. c port as asa a sincere gesture for a worthy objective r a a U definite break with the past a renunciation of dollar doUar diplomacy significant as a sign that we 4 are making snaking progress by treating emotional f questions which grow out of war ix in an intellectual tu l way r When When d dealing ng with a fallacy fallacy- it is difficult i 1 to get the right answers If It neutrality rests r rl- rl upon a fallacy how about the fallacy of seeking seeking seek- seek f ing war profits In the last analysis there ther are aref f no war profits We thought there were in the last war We Ve sold old a fabulous amount of war warr Ji r materials and contraband to nations having f large credits here When the credits ran out j we 10 loaned ned the allies and now more more than 16 years a after t r the end nd of the war wa th they y yi f i owe us more than W War r is d dej de- de j economic economic political social human physical moral moral how oral how can a rational being seek a a. profit from it Senator Thomas' Thomas address on neutra neutrality ity f from the American viewpoint should shoula do do much to clear away confusion and doubt and andr r I. I to encourage those seeking more practical approaches ap- ap proa preaches hes to workable peace formulas than have U been evolved o. o i so far