Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1921-01-29 | Page 2 | Lewis Foresees U.S. on Defense

ILEWIS FORESEES ji If. S. ON DEFENSE Former Senator Urges Code i of International Law to Maintain Power COtfTJMBtA, 9. C. Jan. 29 Immc-I diate steps to form a code for international inter-national dealings wns tirr.'ed by former, I Senator James Hamilton Lewis, of II-1 I llnols. In a speech here lat ivfght he-foro he-foro the South Carolina Bar assocla- i lion. The former senator declared thai the I'nlted States will eventually find itself Isolated as upon an Islnnd with the forces of Koropean ftnd Asiatic Asi-atic countries Joined against it and that tiome form of code for dealing with them is Imperative There Is no international law.'' Mr. 1 Lewis declared, -and the time has come to recognize thHt all international interna-tional laws which since this government govern-ment wns establl.-.hed, appertained to the I'nlted States of America are at an end." Ho averted that the countries of) Europe of the day when the treallesj VTt re made, are no longer the same ; and some have ceased to exist. "Ven-, ge.-mce Is the motive and revenge the In) entlVe Of present day European peo-1 plea," h. declared. "In cooperation In all these purposes of the peoples of Europe are the people of Japan. Japan Ja-pan Is now exerting power over nil Ihe Asiatic nations In the form that Ihe' Monroe doctrine Is administered by the United Stales toward South and Centrnl America. "Thus the European hemisphere, w ith that of the Asiatic, becomes a I common enemy to the I'nlted S ates. ' Hoth sit in brooding Jealousy of us These foreign lands will soon be engaged en-gaged in overcoming our commerce and dethroning our financial supremacy suprem-acy throughout the world. They will he a unit In the erection of International Interna-tional laws that will give them advantages advan-tages wi'.h each other and combine them with disadvantages to the United States."