Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-04-07
LACK OF MUTUAL
CONFIDENCE AFFLICTS
WORLD SAYSL0WELL

Boston, April 6-The two moral
evils which af1lict the world today are
lack Of mutual confidence and an ex-
cess of emotion in comparison with
| calr', rational, careful thought. FRESH
dent A. Lawrence Lowell of Harvard
said in an address tonight at dinner
conference of the executive. commit
tee of the League of Nations Non-Par-
tiSan Association and a committee Of
100 representing various parts of the
state.
Conclu Ling an appeal for internation-
al cooperation. President Lowell said
The nearest objective before us is
the permanent court of international
justice and We should make every eff
fort to cause the Senate to accept it,
To reach further goal we must strive
to make our fellow citizens perceive
our interest and our duty to cooperate
with other countries in securing to the
world the peace and order without
which no family of nations can fully
prosper
The meeting here was one of a Sc
ries held throughout the country under
the auspices of the League of Nations
NonPartisan Association on the sixth
anniversary of the declaration of war
against Germany.
In many cities today people are
meeting to consider what the relation
of this country should be toward other
nations" President Lowell said. That
such meetings should be held is right
and proper since the United States is
not an autocracy ruled by Office hold
ers. but a land governed by public
opinion where citizens have a duty to
form and express opinion.
"a movement of this kind to be of
real value must be strictly non-parti-
san. Party politics must stop at the
frontier. because any foreign policy to
/ be effective must be continuous; and
no foreign policy can be continuous,
or fail to be disastrous for the coun-
try. if it is favored by one political
party and opposed by the other.
THE world is suffering from the ef
fccts of the war. and unless a remedy
is found it will continue to suffer long,
perhaps to the extent of a permanent
blight upon the civilization of which
we form a part. The war has left a
legacy Of high explosives, not merely
material which is omnous enough.
The moral evil. that of lack Of mu-
tual confidence. is patent. Everyone
who goes to any part of Europe sees
it. not only between the enemies, but
also between the Allies in the war. The
confidence felt for us, the ono nation
believed to have no selfish object, has
been in large part lost. but it can be
re gained. Not by sending our hoys to
perish in the broils of Europe. No one
is asking that or thinking of it. Our
attitude about European conferences is
criticized. and not unjustly. We send
message telling what our claims are
and demanding that they shall be heed
cd. while we refuse to sit down at A
table with other nations to consult with
them or assume any responsibility for
the decisions reached, even in matters
that affect our own interests. That
does not seem worthy of a great nation
which took part in a war that brought
about the present conditions.
I'VE have tried the policy of isola-
ton AMI there are signs that we are
getting tired of it. Men thought We
could have political isolation, without
isolation in trade. but from that dream
we are awakening. Owing to the state
Of the wheat producing regions of Rus
STA, there is a great demand for 1000
in central Europe. and yet. owing to
the conditions there. our farmers have
no Sufficient market for their gram
Suggestions are heard of an economic
conference which shall keep away from
questions of q political nature But
economic stability in Europe IS impos-
sible without political stability. Some
fruits Of the idea of isola ton are OK
traorClinary. The confusion OF thought
to which it leads is shown in Conncc-
tion with the permanent court of inter-
national Justice created by the League
of Nations Such tribunal has ever