New Britain herald., 1930-01-14
BELIEVES WE MUST
 JOIN WORLD COUR1
Prof. Morrow Addresses Lions
 on Isolation Of U. s.

world court, according to Professor Rising Lake Morrow, professor of history and government at Wesleyan University in an address to the Lions club at the Burritt hotel at noon to- day.
 Professor Lakes address was based on Our isolation policy and was az follows:
 One Of the cardinal features Of our foreign policy, since the birth Of the republic, has been the isola- lion of the United States from the political affairs of Europe. It is still q policy iu T technical sense but in fact 1t has been whittled down 10 al most no:hng. The United States is as closely LCund 10 Europe at the present tuhc in Humanitarian, intel loctual and economic fields as it is possible 10 be, and this is becoming true to q greater and greater extent in the political field.
 "To uHGerstand the reasons for this cvo!ation m our policy it is ne Cessarv to understand the situation that led to the original onunciatiOn . flced a st Of HIsCouraginE facts. In his tin,e the United States had noth- ing ot tine spiritual unity. the loyalty to q government or Il flag or q set of. ideals that constitutes a nation. tMeI jeans put states before the na- ronal government. considered the } ight Of secession was absolute, and were not above accepting cOmmis- sions and money from foreign gov erumcnts There was no assurance that the government would be per iGanent. Washington had seen three governments in tho short space Of l : gears. The country was nearly bank rupt, the interest on the public debt being from four to six years over Gur. Economically, however, Ameri- ca was Self-sufficicnt and in that ract Washington saw d ray Of hope, Looking abroad, he realized that al that time Europe was the world as far as international relations were concc, ned, and that the United States vas separated from that world by an ocean which it took four weeks to cross.
 "Thc country needed quiet and peace to develop q sense of unity. to make permanent it's government, and to make itself economically stable. This was possible because of it's economic self-sufficiency and be- cause Of its geographic isolations. On the basis of these facts Wash ington, in his farewell address enun- cated the famous doctrine of isola ton.
 "..s the facts on which the policy was based changed, 1t was but nat ural that the policy would change. By 1914 the change was clearly evil dent. The United States was q na- ton, the government was as staD ? as any in the world, it was not bankrupt but was exporting capital cables and steamships made it's so- lation a myth, and ii was no longer economically s.if-sufiicient. 1t still. rendered lip-seryice 10 it's isolation policy, but it was face 10 face with Europe in the Caribbean, in the Latin American countries. in the Near East and in the Far East. In the struggle for markets and raw materials it Was forced into con- tacts with foreign powers. It had already mixed in the usso-Japan- csc struggle and dipped into the TranCo-German controversy over Morocco. The war. just IS every other general War in Europe has done, gradually drew her into the T r.+ ties.
 "When the War was over the United States found herself clinging to q tradition which no longer fit. ted into the world order. The req sons for it's existence were Gonn ant an entirely new situation faced the country. The world had shrEnk in in size and the intcrdependcnce had correspondlngly increased. Prcsi- dent Hoover said in 1919: We ale an overseas people and we are de- perdent on Europe for the purchase of the surplus of our farms and fac tories
 American history since 1920 has been one long struggle to hold 0 tn" old tradition while the major forces in it's economic, cultural and poli- tical life pulled the country away from it. This struggle is p' rhgps most clearly traced in the relation with the League Of Nations.
 "America began by ignoring it, even going so f#r as 10 refuse 10 answer its communications, This lasted for six months. w. then tried to keep clear Of the council of ambassadors at Paris but the Amer ican ambassador was finally ordered to take part in some Of the sessions and he ended by taking part in all The United States refused at first to join the public health work a' Geneva and tried 10 block the con sideration of th" opium question hv the league. ln 1@2i Pr sidcut Cool idgc achnoWl"d-rd our cooperation with the l"agEo in both of thos" matters Tn April fe2e. Richard Washbum rhila attended tuo Genoa conference IS a styur observer. Iu November ln-2 tLr.a 01-"rlyrs We're sent to 1he Luus.uu. couC.rrnr". Iothng being said about silence. In l H24 thnr. r"s au oGjrjaI NlH rirut d"lcgatiou at 'ha London corforrnc. and at q critical momrHt :,ccr,pry ot1State Hptlps anp,ar"d. Sine l327 tho tinted States ja4, with on, or. two possible exceptions. nnu Of finially represented ou r,rry rom. mhtee Or commission which tm league has appointed. tl has even been known to Ask in an uuoflciui way for an invitation ,e,,H ], Seem. ccb as if the Ieaguc had overlooked