The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-11-21
Says Only United
States Cooperation Can
Stop World Destruction

Washington - FTP - Only the
United States can prevent the COM
ing of another world war-this one
the final war because it will de-
stroy the civilian populations as
well as the armed forces of the
various nations, leaving no victors
Arthur Meighen, former Tory
premier of Canada, told a big
gathering of foreign ENJOYS and
peace workers in Washington, Nov.
10th. The occasion was the Arm
istice dinner of the Good Will
Congress of the World Alliance
for International Friendship.
Meighen was the Canadian spokes-
man at the Versailles peace con-
ference.
He declared that war was an
immediate menace, and "wellnigh
certain" because the nations had
added hundreds of millions of dol
lars to their army and navy bud
gets since the World War, and this
competition in ornaments had run
ahead of the series of peace trea-
ties which included Locarno and
the Pact of Paris. In the next
war, he said, defense of cities
against attack from the air will
be impossible; the only way to
meet such offensives will be retail
alton against the cities of the en-
envy peoples. Millions of lives
will be snuffed out by new weap-
ons-poison gas, shells dropped
from the air fleets, and other
wholesale means of slaughter.
Blockades will be enforced more
scientifically, from the air as we'll
as from land and sea. What the
100, 100000 people of the Central
European powers suffered while
Il the Allied blockade starved them
into submission will be a mere
trifle, he asserted, in comparison
with the effects the next embargo
will secure. And above all, no
government will abide by any
pledge to forego the use of any
} weapon; Necessity knows no law
/ Meighen laid down the PROPOSE
ton that all nations must join II
an organized obligation against
e any warfare. The old privilege Of
: national sovereignty, to fight one!
t neighbor, must be given up be
i, cause science has rendered it /;
menace to humanity. If civiliza
ton is to continue, all nations, in
Guiding especially the Unite'
States, must join the common or
ganization. If the United State
fails to do this, then it will deter
mine the destiny of the human
race by that inaction. And tn
Z competition of ornaments, sweep
: ing on, will "at no distant tim
z send civilization to its DOOM"
Raymond Robins and Justic
: Florence Allen of the Ohio Su
preme Court urged that the Unit
ed States join the World Cou1
T" and also join in a convention t
make effective the Kellogg PaC
ID by agreeing to punish violators, j
some way. Robins, in the pres
n ence of the British, French an
re Japanese ambassadors, suggeste
is that German PREPARATIONS must
le revised and turned into a bond il
" sue running for only one gener;
y ton, so that the war danger frol
81 German resentment of the We
i sailles peace terms may be redu,
Mt ed.
e, Justice Allen disclosed that Il
- Havana Pan-American Conferen,
m of 1928 suppressed a propos
or from its special commission on i
m m ternational law, which declar,
in that title to territory establisht
to by conquest should henceforth
~. void. That proposal was favor,
ne by Latin American jurists.
IL never even came before the Co
y ference, which was dominated
lcs Charles Evans Hughes.
n Former Ambassador JacC
to Gould Schurman, presiding,
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