Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-11-11
President, in Armistice Day
Address, Traces Methods
Developed Since War for
Settling Difficulties.
PROPOSAL is REPEATED
FOR PROTECTION OF FOOD
Chief Executive Delivers Main
Talk to World Alliance for In
ternational Friendship Through
the Churches Now Holding SEES
sions in Capital.

American adherence to the
World Court and broad participa
ton in efforts to maintain world
peace were stressed by President
Hoover in his Armistice day ad-
dress today.
The President, speaking at the
washington Auditorium before
the Goodwill Congress of the
World Alliance for international
Friendship Through the Churches,
dwelt upon the methods that have
been worked out since the great
war for the peaceful settlement of
difficulties between nations.
Repeats Proposal on Food.
Emphasizing the importance of ex-
tending the body and principles of in
ternational law, he continued: THE
World Court is now a strongly estab-
nshed institution amongst As nations as
q continuing body, performing and ia
cilitating iuSticiable determinations
which can only be accomplished spo-
radically under special treaties of arbi-
tration. Its permanence Is assured and
from it there Is steadily growing body
of precedent, decisions and acceptance
of law, In the formulation of which we
should have part, not alone in our
own interest, but in the advancement Of
peace"
Mr.. Hoover repeated his proposal,
made a. year ago, that food supplies
should be immune from interference in
time Of war and that the security Of
such supplies should be guaranteed by
neutral transport and management. He
continued:
I'VE, as a Nation whose independence,
liberties and securities were born Of war,
cannot contend that there never Is or
never will be righteous cause for war in
Righteousness Is so advanced in the
world that we may yet have complete
confidence in the full growth of pacific
means or rest solely upon the processes
OF peace for defense"
Mr.. Hoover pointed to the Kellogg
BRAND pact for outlawing war and re-
cent discussions of extending this treaty
to insure mobilization of world opinion
against those who fail to abide by it.
Such formula would be stimulative
and would appeal to the dramatic sense
of the world as mark in the prog
reSs of peace" he said. But less dra-
matte and even more sure is the day
to-day strengthening and buttressing
Of the pact by extension from one ma
ton to another Of treaties which, in
times Of friction, assure resort to well
tried purposes of competent negotia-
ton, of Cancellation and of arbitration.
Should Not Criticize.
1.-THE nations of Europe, bordered as
they are by age-old dangers Of which
we In the Western Hemisphere have
little appreciation, beset as they are by
Iong-inherited fears, believe that they
must subscribe to methods which in the
last resort viii use force to compel ma
tons to abide by their agreements to
settle controversies by pacific means
We should make no criticism of their
conclusions which arise from their
necessities.
But we believe that our contribution
can best be made in these emergencies,
when nations fail to keep their under
takings of pacific settlement of dis
putes, by our good Offices and helpful
ness. free from any advance commit
ment or ENHANCEMENT as to the char
acter OF our action"
This meeting, at which the President
was introduced by President Cloyd H
Marvin of George Washington Univer-
sity. followed a ceremony by the World
Alliance at the Tomb of the Unknown
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