New Britain herald., 1920-10-26
CARDINAL GIBBONS
 FIRM FOR LEAGUE
Delay Imposed Alone VIII Reduce
 wars to . Minimum, He Says.
QUOTES POPE BENEDICT
"I know We win Accept Our Respon. abilities in the World Situation"
 %- He Declares.

l men who have taken a firm stand for the League of Nations" The state ment declared that Cardinal Gibbons based hts support chiefly upon the Encyciical of Pope Benedict, declaring that all States should unite in one League" The statement, based upon an interview with stephen Bonsal of the Baltimore Sun, published yes
 to-day. says the Cardinal declined to
 discuss political conditions. but talked
 freely about his earnest desire for
 world peace.
 At the outsct of the interview Car
 aloud to him. two paragraphs of the
 Pope's Encydical. as follows:
 Things being thus restored, the
 order required by justice and charity
 re-established and the nations recon
 ciled. it is much to be desired, ven
 crabie brethren that all States. putting
 aside mutual suspicious, should unite
 in one league, or, rather. In a family
 of the peoples, calculated both to
 maintain their own independence and safeguard the order of human society. | What especially. among other req sons. calls for such association of na-
 lions is tho need. generally recog- | nized. of making every effort to abol- l ish or reduce the enormous burden of | the military expenditure, which States | can no longer bear. in order to pre- vent these disastrous wars. or. at | least. to remove the danger of them as far as possible. So would each
 nation be assured not only of its in- dependence. but also ,of the integrity
 of it's territory within its just bor- | ders." r4t
 Noble wortis,- Says Cardinal. | Aftar Cardinal is quoted as saying: ~ f'Nobie wordsl The Holy Father
 was indeed Inspired with the spirit of rightsousnSes when he proclaimed
 them to the Everlasting City and to the world that is in such grave dan
 ger. subscrf0s 10 them absolutely, and without r~ssrve, as an American citizen and as . son of the Church
 as well nigh the eldest son of the
 Church.
 "Yes. | am In favor of very differ ont world Arrangements and of checks and baIancer.' to use the l words of .nur political fathers. from those that made pcssibis what hap pened h isl1 10, ysu recall how it canne7 Thnfe we've . few letters from | -Foreign Ministsrs half published, or not at aii. A few teleGrams exchanged | between Emperors and Kings. and | then rivers of blood began to now to the Niagara oA suffering at which | we. dumfoundsd and almost helpless, still assist.
 What most like and highly value about the proposed League is. first. l the delay which t imposes upon any and all nations--you must not rush | hsadiong into this thing in which we all run the danger of being involved. We say you must be frank. open and | above board: you must place your plans before the world and they must and shall Dc carefully weighed. Why, in my judgment, this single new world regulation will reduce wars to a min- imum. Second thought and careful eonsideration of steps to be under taken>is imposed. and on second sober thought few will draw the sword.
 And then I like and value that phrase and declaration, That it is the friendly right of each member of the League to bring to the attention of | the Assembly or of the Council any 1 circumstances whatever affecting in- | ternational relations which threaten to disturb international peace or the good understanding between nations upon which peace depsnds'
 Hopes It Will Come Soon.
 Tt shall be the friendly right---I iiht tIldt iIliIneDSelys III the next de- | cade-better in the next ten months l - hope it will become the friendly right and the inevitable duty for all 4 nations to combine for the preserva- tion of peace. How often would wars have been avoided if in the past we had acted in this way and under these prescriptionsl
 'I like the plan for delay. I like the solemn agreement for the preven- ton of international war which the | covenant stands for and of which, in | the words you have just read, His Holiness the Pope expresses hts warm | approval. So with the great disas- ter behind us, although we still sit | in its dark shadow. we should, and I believe we are, determined to safe guard the order Of human society which is in danger, to maintain the independence of the peoples within | their just borders, and to reduce, if | we cannot wholly abolish. the burden of military expenditure. Sitting as a | council of brethren, with the shadow of the great catastrophe still upon us, | we should, and have no doubt we l will. draw nearer to one another and take up. in a fraternal spirit. seria- tim, those vexsd questions that still | remain and which arc . gravs mem ace Co the fellowship of the forward looking. God d-fearing. God-iovins na- tions. These questions still threaten the peace of the world-that peace whose blessings we are just beginning to enjoy again.
 Delay is dangerous and it means