Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-11
SENATOR DEFENDS
u. S. CHINA POLICY.
Walsh of Montana Answers
Critics of Hoover for Part !.
In Far East Crisis. :
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press
CHICAGO, November ll.-Senator
Thomas j. Walsh Of Montana last
night attacked the critics Of President
Hcover's Intervention into the Sino-
japanese dispute.
The Democratic leader in the SEN
ate told the disarmament barqueL" CT
the Good Will Congress that "ti-ss
critics have poured their walls o. wra:l
upon the Presidents head because he
joined with the Council Of the League
of Nations TO compose the differences
that have resulted in state Of war in
Manchuria."
One was led to believe, Senator
Walsh said, that in their unrestrained
venom toward the League. this bloc
would rather that open warfare, in
volving all the resources in men and
money of the Orientals, should ensue
than that the League should be credited
with part in averting it,
Calls Isolation Futile.
Representative Ruth Bryan owen and
Maj. Gen. John F. Organ, commander
of the 9th Division of the A. E. F.,
were other speakers before the congress,
sponsored by the World Alliance for In
ternaticnal Friendship Through the
Churches.
The Let em fight" policy was not
very strong in America, Senator Walsh
said, and the whole course of history
demonstrates the futility of the isola-
tionists' program for insuring peace"
while conceding the high minded
ness of the isolationists, those of us who
do rot concur in the do-nothing policy
modestly maintain that ours is the
more effective. the more Christian
policy and it has the approval, as I
l. - As~w-{ - 49,
American people"
Gen. Organ said: "All the world
Is armed to the teeth" and that ~
are drifting steadily and surely in. -
bigger and more evil war than t>-~
last
Mrs. Owen Discusses Youth.
The former Army officer said he was
zone Of those who believed the ira
gedies and waste of the World War
were so colossal and widespread that
not again in our time would there be
another war between civilized peoples
and that the understanding of such
peoples was such as to insure the de-
velopment of the League of Nations and
the World Court to substitute the
processes of law and justice for the
waste of war.
But anomalous as it may SEEM" Gen.
" Ryan JIlC ODlICu 0JdOCo,
which proposed this world agency for
the substitution Of law for war, has
remained aloof.'
Mrs. owen told the congress its most
important world could be done among
the youth of the world.
What youth thinks today" the
daughter Of William Jennings Bryan
said. the world will do tomorrow Our
small boys and girls do not think Of the
10, St0 kAo V-riA "a ~
continents and peoples. Aviation has
taught them it is just q place to hop
across
Youth has energy and idealism.
II youth could only retain those
two qualities the world would benefit"
Mrs Owen described her work in Sc
lecting the best citizens among
Florida high school students and show
ing them around Washington in order
to reward their patriotism. She sug-
gested the Plan be tried in other States. ,
Would Change Naturalization.
DR.. S. Parkes Cadman, New York
clergyman, suggested that Congress
amend the naturalization law so as to
remove the possibility of conflict be-
tween loyalties."
Supreme Court denying naturalization
to a distinguished Christian because Of
his insistence that his relation to God !,
stands above every other loyalty due
from him, contravenes the real spirit
and intent of our Constitution" he said
The Congress voted to express to the
President our unqualified approval Of
your efforts in safeguarding peace under
the Kellogg pact by collaborating with
the League of Nations in dealing with
the Manchurian situation"
we urge you," the telegram read, ito
make an immediate public declaration
that an American representative will
again sit with the council when it re-
convenes November Is for further con-
sideration of this problem and that !.
the United States will cooperate with
the league in making effective the find-
ings of the Council"