Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-10
CHANGE FOR HAITI
HELD HOOVER VIEW
WiIIiamstoWn Institute Also
Hears Charge "Timidity"
Is Bar to League.

NJ the Associated Press.
WILLIAMSBURG, Mass. August g.
DR.. Jesse S. Reeves. professor OF politl-
cal science of the University OF Mlehl-
gan, today told members of the lnsti-
fute of Politics that there is little DOUBT
that the Hoover administration Is I'M
sympathetic toward Intervention III
Haiti.
He said he believed that President
Hoover would welcome the opportuni-
ty" to relinquish responsibility OF con-
troll there.
DIR. Reeves. who was a member OF the
American Commission for the Co0l-
fication of International Law, convened
at Rio de Janeiro in 1927, asserted that
all the United States relations with
Haiti should be legalized through trea-
ties, and said that "a Plat amendment
for Haiti would stop all trouble there.
Gold Output and Prices.
Prof. willard 7. Thorp of Amherst
College said periods of falling prices
have correspondent rather closely with
periods when the rate of gold produc-
ton was low, and periods of advancing
prices with a more rapid rate of in
crease of our gold supply.
Both theoretically and historically
there is reason TO believe that the di-
minishing rate of gold production would
be a significant factor in determining
our price trends in the future.
There is every indication that the
gold supply will not prove sufficient to
sustain the price level, and we may
anticipate a slow, often interrupted,
but prolonged decline in commodity
prices, he said.
"Timidity" in League Views.
Of If faH If
the United States Fleet, in the round
table discussion of limitation of arma-
ments. said that 1t was probably
timidity that kept the United States
out of the League of Nations" There
Is sufficient sentiment in this country,
he said, to overcome the big bass
drum" who have really been tinid and
have kept the United States out OF the
League.
Speaking of the "entangling al
Nances" argument, he said the sound of
the phrase has preserved it in Ameri-
can history, and that 1t has become an
epithet and Americans are prone TO
"argue by epithet."
Freedom Of Seas.
Lord Eustace Percy of London. for
mer member of the British diplomatic
service, addressing the institute tonight
on Freedom of the Seas" said:
According to the view generally ac-
cepted by international lawyers. q ma
ton at war can declare a blockade of
the actual coastline of its enemy, but
this declaration gives il no right to
interfere with neutral ships bound for
q neighboring port, whatever may be
the destination of the goods carried by
those ships.
Consequently we have arrived at
The curious conclusion that the only
countries against which the legal doc
trine of blockade can be effectively ap-
piled are Great Britain, Australia, New
Zealand, Japan and possibly India"
He said that Senator William +.
Borahs definition of the freedom of
the seas as the right of neutrals to
carry commerce in war as freely as in
peace excepting when carrying actual
munitions of war or seeking to break
a blockade" would confer on CONT
mental powers a virtual immunity to
all forms of naval pressure, while ex-
posing Britain or France to the full
risk of complete starvation"