Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-01
Senator CritiCizes Big Anna
ments in IndorSing Presi-
dents Program.
RATIFICATION OF DEBT
MORATORIUM PREDICTED
Congress Seen Speedily Passing
Measure-Idahoan Ready to
Meet Court Issue.
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.


IF the big Navy group wants &c
carry its fight for excessive naval ex-
pansion to the people, let it do So The
! President can risk such a fight with
composure. The country will be with
him"
| Thus spoke Senator William E. Borah.
/ Republican, OF Idaho, chairman of the
! Senate Committee on Foreign Rela-
tions, back at his Office in the Capitol
| today after an all-Summer absence
in his State and in the Far West. Wig
orous and brown as an athlete in
| training, Mr. Borah faces the rigors OF
the coming session of Congress in cid
/ time battle form. He found his desk
piled high with letters and kilograms
from all over the country. enlisting his
interest in every cause now agitating
the public mind
Il am heartily in favor OF President
Hoover's position on naval eXpendi-
ture," Senator Borah said 1T is an
exceedingly modest demand he makes,
in projecting a cut Of only 100000 900
!
do not think our naval ZealotS will VEN
ture to take their cause to the country
If they are so foolhardy. confidently
predict they will be licked. The people
are not in mood for excessive expendi-
ture in any direction at this critical
juncture. least of all on ships of war
which we don't need
Cuts Are PrOpitious
There never was a more propitious
moment for slashing naval disbursc-
ments. War threatens the world in no
direction. Governments are far more
interested in their relations with their
own peoples-in lifting from their bent
and burdened backs the almost unen-
durable loads they are carrying in the
form of taxation and economic tribula-
lions. 1t is the height of absurdity for
any American naval officer to suggest
that half-a- dozen destroyers more or
less or half-a- dozen cruisers more or
less are going to make a PARTICLES off
ference to the safety OF our country at
this time. There is no peril or danger
of the remotest description that justi-
fles our giving out for naval purposes
a single penny that we can possibly
save. I repeat. let the big Navy group
let down as heavy a barrage as 1t
pleaSes to the contrary. The peoples
answer will be prompt and decisive.
They will stand by the President"
Ready for Court Issue.
Senator Borah was asked what he
thinks about the new drive for taking
the United States into the World Court,
just announced by a group headed by
George w. Wickersham. John w. Davis.
Nicholas Murray Butler and other we'll
known advocates Of American entry
into The Hague tribunal
Il am all reaoy for that kind Of a
drive" the foreign relations chairman
replied Il am more persuaded than
ever, since the recent decision handed
down by The Hague tribunal in the
Austro-German tariff union case, that
the World Court is something for the
United States to stay out of, and not
go into it. The tariff verdict branded
the Court indelibly as a court of poll
tics. instead of a court of Justice"
What has the United States to offer
M Laval when the French premier
reaches Washington this month, Sena-
tori"
We'll, a cordial welcome. I should
say" the Idahoan said. L don't want
to discuss any of the questions that will
automatically be brought up when M
Laval is here, because 1t might be in
truding upon the preserves of the Presi-
dent, who will be his host l fancy
European statesmen are fully aware of
Americas inhibitions with respect to
certain questions that weigh heavily
on Europe's soul. For my own part,
have long been convinced, and still
am, that until there is a sweeping re-
vision of the treaties of Versatile and
st. German, there can be neither en-
during peace nor economic tranquility
on the other side of the Atlantic. Nor
in trle ,n,,f I,o
practical approach TO the question of
disarmament.
Peace Rests on Force.
The peace treaties rest on force-on
the maintenance of armies and navies
Unless the treaties are revised down.
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