Evening star., 1923-08-02
ADMIRAL ATTACKS
LAW, NOT WAR PLAN
Force Agency Whereby Order
Is Made to Prevail, Says
William L. Rodgers.
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press
WIILIAMSTON. Mass. August p.
The law, not war" movement was
criticised by Rear Admiral William
l.. Rodgers. chairman of the general
hoard of the United States Navy. at
the institute of politics address this
afternoon.
THAT text" he declared, zig IN.
sound, for war itself is an integral
part OF law War is the agency
whereby law is made to prevail when,
il is disputed by eVfI-doers- be they
individuals or nations. Admiral Rod
Ecr9 Waa 0De Of tbe SDeabera at tbG
gers one of the speakers the
oI'<-ra con f.zr-elle,e on no. rl1e SsorI d
t:Fore@--
Other addresses were by Dewitt
Clinton Poole of the State Department
on "Diplomacv." and by Prot Jesse s.
Reeves and Prof Eugene Wambaugh
of Harvard. on Law"
Predicts Union I'm Russia.
The prediction that there will even
tually he a United States of Russia
was made at another round table by
Boris 4. Bakhmeteff. former am
hassador 70 the United StatesS who
declared that the future government
of his country will be a government
Of service and not of rule.
Russia" he said. will have strong
local governmental units. which will
probably be gathered into fedora
ton"
The administration Of Danzig and
the Sarre basin. under the new ar
rangements effected by the league of
nations. was praised by Miss Sarah
Mambaugh of Cambridge. formerly a
member of the secretariat of the
league.
Philip II. Kerr. formerly confidential
adviser TO Lloyd George. opened his
conference on international Prob
lens of the British Empire at the
Institute OF Politics here yesterday.
with a consideration of progress as
the most compelling cause of inter
national collisions, saying that ideas
of progress were at the bottom of
every great era of international war
from the time of the first Pharaoh.
THE process which began so many
centuries ago" he said. lis going to
work out in the future, and it is bound
to involve collisions and problems
quite as difficult and quite as impor-
tant as any in the past.
Asia Waking to Life.
Asia obviously is waking into life.
1t is claiming it's position interna-
tionally. and the international prob
lens which have seemed so difficult
among the European powers will be
conflicting in the future when east
has to deal with the west by the irri-
tation of colored prejudice.
There is the problem of Europe it
self finding some way of bringing
peace to that distorted continent. FL
of,
which are coming forward. Prohi
hition already has created a new set
of international difficulties such as
we have never seen before.
The real point which we have to
consider is not to dream as to
rcic act or A torrent of exuberant
sentimentality. to bring peace to the
world but to set to work patiently to
consider whether the machinery
which we have at present for dealing
with this vast complex of questions
which confront us. and which will
continue to confront US for many
long year. is a better and more pos
sible way than in the past"
Defends French Stand.
Canon Ernest Dimnet of France
said that his country would posi-
lively commit suicide" if it yielded
on the reparations question. He said
he could not understand what he
characterized as the complete re-
versal of the attitude of Great Britain
toward the Versailles treaty.
Should France be expected to
make all the sacrifices alone?" he
asked. rs Great Britain willing to
give back to Germany her shipping
and her colonies? Why does Eng
land insist that France should for
give Germany a large part of her
debt while Mr.. Balfour in his famous
note demanded that France pay her
debt to England in full? AS long
as these questions are not answered
there will not be any chance of
peace in Europe. The rehabilitation
of Germany and the commercial fu-
ture of Great Britain both hang on
the financial future of France"