| Show Between You and Me Ie i of an an ri Isolationist Hulls Hull's Dignified Plea A On Time One Time A. A E. E EF F I II i 1 t i B By Raymond Cl Clapper Any ny Isolationist ought t to be able ble to give warm approval to Secretary of ot State Stat H Hulls Hull's Js J's dignified dignified dig dig- and balanced course coure in tact face of ot Mussolini's threatening preparations preparations prep prep- for forwar war An isolationist is often supposed to be someone from Kansas or Iowa Iowa Iowa-at at any rate he must bo be a a provincial Middle Westerner Westerner 7 who doesn't give a a damn what happens I outside of ot our mile 3 limit It If there thero are arc any isolationists of ot that kind in the United States they are insignificant in number and influence The real isolationists who make makeup makeup makeup up the rapidly growing body of ot American sentiment arc are not such people They are very much concerned concerned concerned con con- about what happens across the Atlantic They know that war that war in Ethiopia would be difficult to localize now They know that the danger of ot its spreading Into Europe would be great And they know that once this happened the difficulties of ot the United States would become grave gravo and that it would require masterly statesmanship to keep us clear of ot entanglements They know that Europe would try again to draw us in as it did Inthe Inthe in inthe the World war var They know that Americans with munitions cotton cotton cot cot- ton tori wheat oil all and copper to sell seU would create tremendous economic econom econom- ic pressures and that there w would uld be a swarm of ot busybodies official and unofficial d determined that the United States should leap in again to make the world safe for democracy for the Lion of ot Judah for the British Empire or some some- thing No isolationists are not unconcerned unconcerned unconcerned about what happens in the rest of ot the world Their view as asIt asit asit it seems to crystallize in the thought of one of ot them is about like this They hope greatly that the League of oC Nations will succeed in dissuading Mussolini from seeking seek seek- ing his ends by force Nothing would so encourage them For in part the isolationist is sufferIng sufferIng suffer suffer- ing from despair He saw a golden gold gold- en opportunity vanish under greedy clawing of at the victors in inthe inthe the tho last war He saw the great nations of ot the world their most power powerful f u 1 en enemy 0 my completely crushed boot away the chance to tomake tomake tomake make a new ne start Instead Lloyd George ran back home to get himself himself him him- self reelected on a Hang the tho Kaiser platform the Italians Italian yelled Fiume Flume until everyone had hada a headache The allied p powers during the earlier years of ot the war made n a a secret arrangement for ifor dividing up the spoils of ot which the United States according to American authorities was kept in Ignorance when it entered the war Then after they got all tl they y wanted wante out o of the United States they whipsawed whipsawed whipsawed whip- whip sawed Wilson at Paris and made peace terms which Germany felt feltI I were Impossible to meet meet and d d' which led Jed ev eventually nt ally to o the rise of Hitler On top of that thero there were years o of haggling over the yar war warI I debts until the tho United States finally gave up trying to collect ol although it must be said without without without with with- out trying very hard to inal make o arrangements ar ar- which you would d permit the allied powers yer to pay So America turned away in dis dis- dis- dis gust No not not completely away While refusing to enter a League of oC Nations where there was great possibility that we would merely be subjected to the same treatment treatment treatment treat treat- ment we encountered after the armistice the tho United States States' did promote and lead with France in the launching of ot the Kellogg Pact by which practically all nations nations nations na na- na- na of ot the world pledged themselves themselves them themselves selves not to resort to war as s an instrument of oC national policy It was a pledge of ot honor Behind it was no force but that of oC public opinion As a people we do inot knot believe war is a good thing and through the Kellogg Pact there was some hope that we might bring all nations nations nations na na- na- na to that view That hope was vain insofar as the Japanese conquest conquest con conquest quest of at Manchuria was wa con con- But we are aIe hoping again that it will wUl aid In dissuading Mussolini While we appear as a n nation to tobe tobe tobe be firmly convinced that no good can be served by the United States intervening in foreign i quarrels and by going to the aid of ot one ono side or the other and that it is not our place to run aro around arond nd the world meddling in high politics poll poll- tics like Col House and Walter Hines Page did if it there thero is anything anything any any- thing that we can say say which will wUl help bring leaders of other natIons nations nations na na- na- na to their senses and induce them to accept other ways besides besides besides be be- sides w war of oC adjusting their disputes disputes disputes dis dis- dis- dis most people will agree that it it ought to be said That is what Secretary Hull Hun has done He has do doze done e it with scrupulous scrupulous scrupulous regard for the national pride of ot the respective parties and with insistence that we are not concerned with the merits of the controversy but only with discouraging discouraging dis dis- dis- dis resort to war as a means We Ve are concerned with trying to fa prevent the use of oC a barbaric method of oC adjusting differences Which is a good deal different from rushing Into your neighbors neighbor's house while he is in a dispute with his mother law and help help- ing him out with a Do nl niblick lck Senator Pope of ot Idaho our one- one man who has been in E Europe predicting that we would resume our usual place In the up line-up if It another war is staged Is returning home He gave up waiting for tor Europe to decide whether to accept accept accept ac ac- ac- ac the offer otter Copyright 1935 1035 by The I Washington Post |
