OCR Text |
Show with all the world in the constructive tasks of peace Chicago Herald-Examiner. THE PRESIDENT ON PEACE. There is a two-fold distinction to the Armitice Day address of President Hoover which thoughtful people here and elsewhere will be quick to comprehend. com-prehend. In the first place, it is a clear, sincere and straightforward expression, not of the temporary sentimentalities sen-timentalities of a small minority, but of the abiding sentiments of the over, whelming majority of the American people. Witness the emphatic indorsement they have given that deliverance throughout the household of the nation. In the second place, the Armistire Day address has arrested and will long hold the respectful attention of the world because it goes to other nations na-tions as the permanent program of a mighty people "who, with wisdom, love peace, but who love righteous-ness righteous-ness more than peace." It is a prudent program proposing practical ways and means for the pursuit of lofty ideals. It calls for preparedness for defense as well as preparedness for peace. It calls for equality with the strongest upon the seas because that is essential to our national security and must be therefore a condition precedent to any further limitation or reduction of our naval forces. It calls for the strengthe ling and supporting of our foreign service ''as the great arm of our government dedicated ded-icated to the organization of peace." It calls for the codification of the law of nations and for the peaceful settlement of justicial d'sputes. It pledges the United States, in effect, ef-fect, to strive at all times and in all places to obey the mandates of the Farewell Address to ''observe good faith and justice toward nations," nnd "cultivate peace and harmony with all" and ''thereby give to mankind the magnanimous and too novel ex; ample of a people always guided b" an exalted justice and benevolence." And in the spirit President Hoover propose;: for the consideration of the world the exemption of food ships from any interferance in time of war. In other words, to renounce ''starvation ''starva-tion of women and children" as a weapen even of defens've warfare. All in all, the Armistice Day address, ad-dress, coming as it does on the eve of . the London conference, solidifies the position of the United States, not only in the issues to be dealt with at that conference, but in the whole field of foreign relations. It charts a way of life that the American people are firmly resolved to follow and offer their co-ope ration |