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Show Hull Warns Aggressor Nations of Future Downfall GOOD NEIGHBOR POLICY HELD UP AS PEACE PLAN U. S., British Peoples Urged to Join in War on War TORONTO, Oct. 22 (INS) Secretary of State Cordell Hull . today bluntly warned aggressor nations of Europe and the far .east that they must cease their depredations or, sooner or later, the outraged conscience of mankind will set into motion forces which will create, in the sphere of international relations, rela-tions, unshakable order based on law." The American aecretary af state Issued his defiant utterance In an ad dree before the University af Toronto, during which he called upon Ureat Britain, the British dominions and the United States to become a vital force In guar-an guar-an teeing peace In the world. Earlier, speaking at a luncheon tendered him by Prime Minister Mackenzie King at tha Tork club, Hull warned: "At the present dramatis Juncture Junc-ture af history, a duty of tk atmoM gravity devolves upon the governments govern-ments and peoples of the world." Good Neighbor Stressed "If the fruits of human progress, garnered through to millenlums of costly effort, are not to go down In a welter of war, constantly growing grow-ing in frequency and intensity. It Is necessary to demonstrate that the attitude and policy of the good neighbor can be a fruitful reality rather than a mere theoretical possibility pos-sibility or a pious hops." Without naming individual nations na-tions specifically, Hull sternly declared de-clared that dictators are short lived and that their recurrent appearances appear-ances In history are brief. "Modern civilization has survived and has gone ever forward," Hull aaid. "because the violators of order, or-der, the breakers of the peace, have always been the exception rather than the rule. Dictatorships Doomed "Whatever tragedies they have caused during their brief appearances appear-ances on the stage of history, in the and they have always bowed to the will of that overwhelming majority of mankind which desires a continuing con-tinuing advance, rather than an inglorious in-glorious decline, of man's civilised existence." Hull branded "ambitious Individuals" Individ-uals" and those nations who interfere inter-fere In the Internal affaire of other countries or encroach on their soil with armed force as committing "supreme acts of lawlessness." He did not mention Japan, Italy, Germany, Russia or any other country coun-try by name, but pointed references refer-ences to sctions that hav taken place In Spain. In which outside nations havs intervened In the civil war there, and in the bloody strife now taking place between Japan and China left no doubt to the listeners as to what countries Hull referred. Order or Chaos "No community and no nation can continue to base its organised existence ex-istence in part on order and in part en chaos. In part on law and In part on lawlessness. Sooner or later one or the other must triumph," Hull said. "Interference by one nation In the domestic affairs of another, refusal re-fusal by a nation to recognise and (ConllmiMl on P.rt Two) (Column Two Hull Warns Powers Against Aggression (Ooatkuiei tnm Pass One) respect ths Independence, sovereignty sovereign-ty and territorial Integrity of an other, represent still other tvpes of lawlessness In International relations rela-tions which detroy order based on law. They, too. frequently mult in armed conflict." ' In uaing the phrass "recognise and respect the independence, sovereignty sov-ereignty and territorial Integrity" Hull quoted directly from article on of ths nine-power act under which ths nations with Interests in th Pacific, Including Japan, agreed to respect China's sovereignty. It cams whils tha American delegation dele-gation was on ths high seas en route to Brussels, carrying with them the exprea direction of President Roosevelt to seek to perauad Japan and China, through the nine-power : conference, to halt their war, sub-1 sub-1 mlt their differences to mediation by outside powers, i Hull drew special attention to the I fact that his address was made "on the aoil of a great member of the British commonwealth of nations." He said "My country and the countries which compose your mighty union are among the protagonists of the .Idea that peace rather than war la the nomal state of human relations, I within and among nations." Hull said that the pathway to ; peace lies In a respect by nations of their pledged word, or treatise, I of an observance of international1 law and In a mutual aid In tha flow of commerce and economy. Touching on ths resulta of war-far war-far on civilian population In Spain and China, Hull said: "Th Hns of demarcation between h combatants and noncombatants tend to disappear as the advancing technique of war provides ever more powerful weapon of destruction... No nation escapes ths repercussions of a major armed conflict anywhere '' in the world." i |