Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-12

have pledged ourself to refer all these
questions that have hitherto developed
into wars, to refer them to judicial
court sitting at The Hague. We have
nothing to fear. If we are right we will
win our case: If we are wrong we don't
deserve to win our case. When people
talk about little. pettifogging things,
that now and again the most judicial of
benches make mistakes, know that
that Is true. / believe that if we were
to arbitrate or send to arbitration ma
tional causes for the next hundred years
there would be mistakes made; but bal
ance the mistakes on the one hand and
put against them the losses, the destruc-
ton, the criminality of war, and where
does the balance lie? Human mistakes
may be hard to bear by the victim of
the mistake, but the sort of thing that
has been going on, generation after
generation, century after century, I'M
der the false impression that any ma
ton can get security from military
force. altogether outbalances the evils
of human mistakes and If God makes
us imperfect, as apparently he has
done, accept the imperfection Of hui
man good will rather than the certain
destruction and criminality of human
malice and wickedness as expressed in
war.
Farley in January.
"And so, those thoughts being In
mind, we have taken the very best steps
to protect ourselves by proclaiming an
enduring peace between us, but, my
friends, two nations can not make the
peace Of the world, and so next jan
uary, as the results of our conversations
and agreements so far, we are sum-
moning a five-power conference which
will be representative of every large
naval power and We hope that the five
power conference will enable US to make
complete agreements, not between our
selves, but between ourselves and them
and then we shall have widened out
the area Of agreement, we shall have
limited the area of competitive build
ing, we shall hand over the results to
the preparatory commission sitting at
Geneva, the commission that is pre-
pairing the agreements and the agenda
for the general conference in disarma-
ment-at last. the general conference
and disarmament I hope will be held
with very fine prospects of a complete
success.
Can then two nations engage in a
better and more laudable work than
that? And that is the work that you
and we have been engaged IN during the
Summer and the recent weeks.
Now, sir, there is something else
that I should like to refer to, but again
1t is essential for the keeping of peace.
I am sure that everybody who is inter-
ested In foreign relations, at any rate
occasionally, reads his Macaulay, and
I am sure, therefore that some of you
will recognize a passage I am going to
remind you Of. You will remember
what he writes about. Hardy rep
resented Great Britain, or England.
Count Kounitz represented the empire,
The chief business of Hardy and
Kounitz,' says Lord Macaulay, was
to watch each others legs. Neither of
them thought it consistent with the
dignity of the crown which he served
to advance toward the other faster than
the other advanced toward him
"If. therefore, one of them mad
vertently stepped forward too quick, he
went back to the door and the stately
minuet began again. That is the old
diplomacy. Needless to say, neither
your President nor myself engaged in
minuets. We did not try to maneuver
each other into position or out of posi-
ton. We tried, as I said, for no al
liances and no balances of power. We
did not sit down to play creeping
and a waiting game. We did not watch
each other as swordsmen watch each
other or as prize fighters study the
faces of each other. We did not begin
by offering little things. trying to best
each other and then advance, step by
step, and stage by stage, as each one
forced the other