Evening star., 1932-07-24
Follow Up of Lausanne AC-
cord Declared Necessary to
Lift Nations Out of Pro-
Ionged Depression.
WOULD HAVE U. S. TAKE
FULL PART IN PARLEY
Senator Urges Barring of All "Ex-
perts" as Sterilizing Influence.
Program to Embrace Any Ques-
ton Relating to Restoration of
Prosperity Here and Abroad.

An immediate conference of
world powers to consider revision
or cancellation of war debts in
connection with the settlement of
other international problems, was
advocated last night by Senator
Borah, Republican of Idaho, chair
man of the powerful Senate For
eign Relations Committee.
Senator Borah proposed the
conference as a follow up to the
Lausanne reparations agreement,
and as a means of building a
foundation for the economic re-
covery of the world.
Lausanne Results Acclaimed.
The Lausanne agreement, Sem
ator Borah described as a greater
"harbinger of peace and the hope
of humanity than the Versailles
peace treaty. He painted it, too,
as "the most important step taken
since the war looking to the reSto-
ration of confidence in political
and business affairs" Senator
Borah made known his views in
a radio speech.
The revision of war debts, he warned.
should not be predicated on the rep
arationS agreement alone, but conSid-
cred in connection with broad pro-
gram involving disarmament, re-estab-
lishment Of the gold standard, the
stabilization of silver in the Orient and
other unsettled questions.
Broad Program Favored.
The world conference, Senator Borah
said, should be authorized to deal with
any economic and financial question
having bearing upon the economic re-
covery of the world. The United
States, he declared, should not hesitate
to take its place in such a conference
and be willing to deal with all economic
and financial problems associated with
the present condition of affairs.
Incidentally. Senator Borah leveled
a shaft of criticism at so-called "eX-
perts" on world problems, declaring
they should be excluded from the pro-
posed conference and not permitted to
get any closer than "the other end of
the long distance telephone"
Thus far, he said, experts have been
detrimental to every conference they
dominated "They would" he declared.
''sterilize the humanitarian impulses of
angels. The problems have passed be-
yond the refined theories of experts.
They call for the breadth, the vision,
the courage, the humanitarianism Of
Lausanne"
Delay Called PeriIous
Senator Borah declared that delay
In calling the conference would be haz-
ardous. Sixty days of depression in
the latter part of 1882" he said, "wil,
be more devastating than six months ir
the latter part of 1880. If the upward
trend does not start before the cold
winds of December, conditions will be
nothing less than appalling: We should
enter such a conference where there is
60 much involved without any limita-
tion and with no other objective than
to aid in the preservation of modern
civilization"
Senator Borah made it clear he re-
fiected no ones views but his own, and
pointed out that no permanent solution
of the farm question. the unemploy-
ment problem, devastating taxes. un-
balanced budgets, can be hoped for
until some or all of the international
problems are cut of the way.
Not until then" he said, will trade
revive, commerce flow in its accustomed
CIdIIlelS ana IIle monetary systems OF
the world. which have been disarranged
and broken up, again assume normal
operations. Not until then will COM
modify prices begin to rise in a per-
manent way and confidence in business
generally be restored"
Sees Turn for Better.
In the Lausanne agreement Senator
Borah said he saw the beginning of
the end of the long period of human
suffering which began 18 years ago at
the outbreak of the World War. During
this long "torturing" period, he declar-
ed, millions have been killed and
wounded, either upon the field of battle
or in the realm of finance and
economics, billions of property values
destroyed, proud nations driven to the
verge of bankruptcy, 100000 unem-
ployed and their dependents forced to
the edge of starvation, and thousands
of hungry veterans have surged lin
anger and despair against the bolted
doors of capitols from washington to
Berlin"
THE Versailles treaty is no longer
sacred" Senator Borah declared. 1T
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