Evening star., 1933-12-29

i1g masses OF the people themselves In
each nation.
challenge that description Of the
world population today.
wilson Stirred Masses.
The blame for the danger TO world
peace lies not In the world population
but In the political leaders Of that popu-
lation.
The Imagination Of the masses Of
world population was stirred, as never
before, by President Wilson's gallant
appeal to them-to those masses-to
Danish future war. His appeal meant
little to the Imagination or the hearts
Of q large number Of the so-called
statesmen who gathered In Paris to as
senble treaty Of so-called peace In
1919. I saw that with my own eyes
and heard that with my own ears. Po-
ntical profit, personal prestige, national
aggrandizement attended the birth OF
the League Of Nations, and handicapped
1t from its infancy by seeking their own
profit and their own safety first.
Nevertheless, through the League d.
rectly. or through its guiding motives
indirectly. the states OF the world have
groped forward to find something better
than the old way OF composing their
differences,
The League has provided q common
chinery WHICH serves sa for pl0tqsa %
discussion; and in very many practical
instances II has helped labor and health
and commerce and education and last
but not least. the actual settlement OF
many disputes great and small among
nations great and small.
Today the United States Is co-operat-
Ing openly in the fuller utilization of
the League Of Nations machinery than
ever before.
believe that express the views
Of my countrymen when state that
the old policies, alliances. combina-
tions and balances Of power have
proved themselves inadequate for the
preservation OF world peace. The
League OF Nations, encouraging as 1t
does the extension OF aggression
pacts, Of reduction Of armament agree
ments, Is q prop In the world peace
structure.
We are not members and we do not
contemplate membership. We are Civ
ing cooperation to the League in every
matter which is not primarily political
and in every matter which obviously
the peoples Of the world as distin-
of political leaders, of privileged classes
or OF tmpertalisttc aims.
Repeats His Proposals.
If you figure the worlds population
at approximately one billion and a half
people, you will find 1t safe to guess
that at least 90 per cent of all OF them
are today content with the territorial
limits Of their respective nations and
are willing further to reduce their
armed forces tomorrow II every other
nation in the world will agree to do
the same thing. Back Of the threat to
world peace lies the fear and perhaps
even the possibility that the other 10
per cent of the people Of the world may
go along with a leadership which seeks
territorial expansion at the expense of
neighbors and which under various
pleas In avoidance are unwilling to re-
duce armament or stop rearmament
even If everybody else agrees to non
aggression and to arms reduction
II this 10 per cent can be persuaded
by the other 80 per cent to do their
own thinking and not be led, we will
have practical peace, permanent peace
real peace throughout the world. Our
own country has reduced the lmmedi-
ate steps to this greatest of objectives
to practical and reasonable terms.
I have said to every nation in the
world something to this effect:
Let every nation agree to elimin-
ate over short period of years, and
by progressive steps, every weapon OF
offense in It's possession and to create
no additional weapons Of offense. This
does not guarantee nation against in
vasion unless you implement it with
the right to fortify its own border with
permanent and non-mobile defenses;
and also with the right to assure itself
through international continuing in
spection that its neighbors are not
creating nor maintaining offensive
weapons Of war.
2. A simple declaration that no
nation will permit any of its armed
forces to cross its own borders into
the territory of another nation. Such