Evening star., 1925-08-01
i. 5. POLICY HELD
CURB ON LEAGUE
Aloofness Keeps Body From
Fulfilling Own Destiny. In
stitute Is Told.
By the Associated Press.


WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass August
THE Institute of Politics showed
yesterday its reaction to the address
outlining Americas foreign policy,
which William r. Castle OF the State
Department made Thursday. On the
part Of the League of Nations, repre-
sentative at the institute, DR.. William
f.. Rappard, the response was partly
one of qualification that this country
was showing a new interest In the
league and was willing to enter the
Permanent Court of international
Justice Cunder the Harding Coolidge
reservationsl. But Americas present
aloofness, he asserted, was preventing
the league from fulfilling its own
destiny.
Aloofness. DR.. Rappard believes, is
not the way to to secure international
peace. A disinterested and fair
treatment of international problems
Is the best and only way to attain
the objects of peace. In Americas
detachment, due to her distance from
the scene of European problems, the
League of Nations has found in the
unofficial American representatives
qualities which make for justice. If
the United States had been represent
ed on the commission which decided
the status of the Saar Basin fair
solution would have been found, he
said. As 1t was the commission was
predominantly French, and France
got the Saar, an outcome Whlch
caused great bitterness on the part
Of the Germans and seemed to many
impartial observers out OF keeping
with the spirit OF the peace treaty.
he explained.
Wishes for More Faith.
ho,.ador uouob.op once defined
peace as an adventure in faith. We
could wish that America would show
herself possibly a little more adVen-
turous in this endeayor, and snow a.
little more faith In what l venture TO
say Is one OF her greatest, noblest ma
tional traditions. the belief in the
pacifying and constructive effect or
international arbitration.
Speaker Continues.
Il fully agree with Mr.. Castle that
IL is q great advantage that no de-
ctsion of international Importance can
be taken without reference to the
possible wishes of America. but where
her fairness, disinterestedness and
greatness could be most effectively
applied surely Is not in the corridor.
It is very well for all the powers or
the council OF the league to ask
themselves what America thinks or
might approve. but 1t would be better
still If they knew"
The growth OF the opium scourge
in a new sphere demands interna-
tional action which the league may
as well aid in obtaining. DR.. Rappard
asserted in another lecture last night.
After pointing to the evils OF opium
eating in India and opium smoking
in the Far East, DIR. Rappard said:
THE derivatives OF opium and OF
the coca leaf, chiefly morphine. heroin
and cocaine, have given rise to what
might be called n universal mortal
disease, from which, in this morbid,
postwar world, no country and no
social class can claim complete I'M
munity. In this. It's third aspect, the
drug evil is peculiarly dangerous in
It's effects upon the minds. souls and
bodies of its victims and peculiarly
international in Its action.
Wants Curb on Drugs.
If the traffic in dangerous drugs
can be effectively regulated on the
basis of the restrictions of the raw
product, and If no international action
may be takerizexcept with the concur
renee of the producing states, then it
is clear that the only road open to re-