Evening Star Newspaper, December 25, 1934, Page 9

PACTS THREATEN PEAGE, LEWIS SAYS Senator Warns U. S. Should Have No Limitations on Arms. Any compact the United States mlnht form with foreign nations which are now preparing for ctrife | would endanger her own safety, Sen- ator James Hamilton Lewis of Illi- ' nois declared last night in a Nati-nal | Radio Forum address, arranged by | The Star and broadcast over a Nation- wide hook-up of the National Broad- | casting Co. Pointing to this country’s geo- i graphic location, he said she should ! have no limitations on her armament, | mor should there be any race to retain | naval ratios. The tri-power naval talks, which | ended in London after an unsuccess- | ful attempt to maintain the naval| limitation treaties, were the special object of his attack. “Scraps of Paper.” Declaring treaties were scraps of paper violated by all nations when they face emergencies, the speaker counseled that the United States re- | fuse to enter contracts with other nations. He said this country needs a Navy | only of a size sufficient to protect her own shores against invasion. There is one nation which is con- structing a navy greater than any- thing seen before, another nation sur- passing all records in its land prepara- tions, and a third nation seeking to equal both the other two on sea and land, the speaker asserted. Text of Speech. The text of Senator Lewis' speech follows: This is Christmas. It is the sea- son where Christian mankind hails humanity with angel hosannas pro- claiming, “Peace on earth, good will to men.” Yet, the civilization represented at the London navy construction meet, construed by action, cries out for preparation for war and shrieks ill will | to all people. Let the United States ask what is the destiny to America in this chart of death to men—destruction to na- tions? America seeks no war. It craves peace and offers its prayers for good will to all mankind. We ask if there be not war as the purpose of the nations assembled in delegations to increase navies, why any preparation for any size of navies? If there is assault calculated, tlien no compact for limit in quality and quan- tity is of any avail. Nations in war are heedless to any contracts made on basis of peace. For people at war, all force available is ruthlessly adopted. Compacts in World War. We recall that in the World War there existed compacts for limitation of arms. These were between three nations, later termed allies, and two nations of those called central powers. Yet all these fighting forces threw aside all treaty guarantees. See the deception in the pretense of peace, while exacting that there must at once be builded all modern ma- chinery of death. In this compact of contradictions there is included as a mark of Christian consideration a provision that .hese weapons for slaughter shall be of only a limited capacity, thus lengthening the dura- tion of the battles by restricting the quantity and facility of the engines of annihilation. It is like prize fighters, weighing themselves to match each other in en- durance for the blows to be blasted against each other. We catch the echoes of the buried Yoricks, murmur- ing to the grave diggers in “Hamlet,” “tender, brother, tender.” Peter the Great Quoted. Let us ask where has an interna- tional compact of limitation of arms ever been kept or wherever were they intended to be upheld as treaties? Peter the Great of Russia, expressing contempt for agreements from dele- gates, in consolation exclaimed: “One word from my brother Charles (mean- ing Charles XII of Sweden) is worth 8 hundred treaties.” Treaties, said he, are ever a laughing matter between the envoys who make them. In the designs now offered as to limitation of navy and restricted de- struction of armaments, mankind are amused and Christianity offended by the pretense for peace—united with the confessions of the purpose of na- tional murder. If nations are for peace, then destroy all armaments of war. If they are for war, then admit the object to invest and multiply every mechanism for the destruction of countries and every system to assure | the death of mankind. Bankruptcy of Nations. Is it to be urged, that with one great nation now having under construc- tion a navy of proportions and value exceeding any comparison in all the history of the earth, or that one other great nation’s standing army is in excess of numbers and power of battery to anything of such nature | ever known to the world's record and another nation with preparation to equal both of the two in war material, means nothing? Is this the toy of the children for Christmas amusement? Is there no memory of 12,000,000 sons of homes lately shot to their graves and their homes desolate of support and chris- tened daily in the tears of their be- loved? Does this mean nothing as warning? Does the new bankruptey | of seven nations, the loss of 40 billions in money and value and the poverty and hunger of its suffering millions, helpless in their hopelessness, suggest nothing of the fate that follows the now calculated and destined destruc- tion of modern civilization? War on United States Foreseen. ‘Why should America go into inter- national compact to guarantee limita- tion on armament for foreign nations? Plain it must be that should we enter the deal and it is disobeyed by any of | its parties, the United States will be | called on by the nations involved to! lend ourselves to enforce the compact, This means war upon the United States by the nations we threaten to | force to obedience or war from the nation we refuse aid in the enforce- ment. ‘To the United States nothing but evil and danger await our entrance into any international contract with THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, Forum Speaker Hits Alliances SENATOR J. HAMILTON LEWIS, of their border neighbor or of the allies of the neighbor; thus, such foreign nation may have to consider Wwar munitions in volume to over- match their assailant or that of its combined allies. Not so with Amer- fca! We need not agree to build against the taxpayer of the United States & navy equal to one or more of that of foreign lands—merely to match in size and quality one with another or with all. We are not preparing to advance on any people in a spirit other than as friends. America needs navy only strong enough to protect our shores against invasion, and armament of all uses necessary only to our complete de- fence. On this right of our own self- defense America stands sovereign in her guarded isolation. We deny the | privilege of any foreign nation to‘ dictate to the United States the | quantity or quality of defense that our Nation shall adopt for its se- curity. Our duty now, while we stand aloof from foreign entanglements, is to proffer counsel and friendship wherever called on, but in no I\se< to dictate or direct any foreign na- tion as to its affairs wholly applicable to its separate interests, Desolation Forced on Reich. Let us not forget that following the tragedy which insued from the pact called the “holy alliance” to | that other pact of nations later | scorned as “a scrap of paper,” Eng- | land was brought to her losses and | compelled to endure her suffering | on an issue not her own—while Ger- | many had forced upon her a desola- tion now endured because of her pride | summoned to enforce a compact, | pledging her under arising circum- stances to war against Russia. Will our United States not learn from any lessons? Hear the patriot call out against Macbeth, “Stands Scotland where it did?” So, too, does our citizen cry out, “Stands America still American?” Let the United States keep out of volunteer entrance or adherence with any foreign nation in the processes of revenge satisfying ancient and in- herited grievances. Let us hold for ourselves the now sustained superior station of the one nation at peace with the world. Guided by the Christ- mas spirit spoken in our national text—“friendship with all, vengeance against none,” we stand as mediator in all service required, but with no con- tracts to assume obligations or give support by human lives in any in- ternational or foreign complication in which for our defense we are in no wise involved. U. S. Keeps Faith. We keep faith in all associations— thus our President and Secretary of State continue to “sit in” where other | administrations pledged us—but let us decline all bids to enter into re- sponsibility to any nations or people | in policies or purposes not directed to the United States by the voice of America. Tonight, with salutation of love and brotherhood to all people in this sacred season, we stand apart from all mili- tary conflict and international brofl— while we petition for all people the Commander of the Celestial Camps the granting of the prayer of Tiny Tim in the Christmas carol, “God bless us all, each and every one of us.” Thank you. Good night. HURRYING SANTA VISITS CHILD BEFORE DEATH St. Nicholas Takes Short Cut to Gladden Last Days of Doomed Girl, Who Dies. By the Associated Press. MUSKEGON, Mich., December 25. —Five-year-old Donna Mavis Shaw is dead, but she had her ffth Christmas. Surrounded by gifts from all over the Nation, she died last night, victim of a malignant growth that started three years ago when she was bruised by the paw of a dog. Doctors were agreed she could not live to see her fifth Christmas, so Santa Claus took a short cut to fill her last wish for some toys, a doll, and above all—a brand-new toy auto- | mobile. Never did she know her parents | were hurrying against time and death | to prepare for Santa’s last visit. PROPERTY BLUE COLOR OF LAKE LAID TO LACK OF DUST Different Hues of Ocean Water Attributed to Numerous Tiny Sea Plants. By the Associated Press. PASADENA, Calif., December 25— How lack of dust makes Crater Lake a vivid blue and tiny sea plants cause different hues in the ocean's coloring was told yesterday by Dr. {John C. Merriam, president of the Carnegie Institution. Merriam, who is president of the Crater Lake Park Board, had won- dered why the water was so blue in the Oregon lake which is 6,177 feet above sea level. He asked Dr. Edison Pettit, a scien- tist of the institution’s Mount Wilson Observatory- here, to make laboratory tests and find the answer. Dr. Pettit made comparisons with | city water and with some ocean water which he had had in a bottle for | several years. The city water, in | which light disclosed many tiny par- ticles, was almost white. 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