The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-11-12

Miss Barbara Lawrence, a fresh man in Connecticut College, ad- dressed an Armistice Day meeting at the Greenvilie Congregational Church in Norwich, Connecticut, last evening on "A Common-Sense Plan for Preventing War" Her talk was based on a magazine arr ticle recently published by her father, Dr. Henry w. / Lawrence, professor of history and political science in Connecticut College.
 Miss Lawrence said, in part:
 Another world war seems in- evitable. unless Great Britain, France, and the United States contrive an adequate substitution for it"
 Stated baldly and briefly, the proposition is to try an honest ex- pertinent in harmonizing national policies. Not in spirit of, broth erly love. There is not enough of that in the world today to float such an enterprise. Our reliance should be rather on the worlds growing realization that if we go much farther in the spirit of dog eat-dog, there will be no dogs left to eat anything"
 "The moral right to keep pos sessing the best regions of the earth is exactly balanced by the right to fight and capture them. It is amazing that so few people will admit this axiom of interna- tional morality. Popular opinion is widely befogged in the more comfortable countries by the childish notion that an aggressive Se Al <l is righteous. They are of course, long as war is the only adequate can be. lighted and national needs supplied. The next rational step toward a tolerable world peace would be the broadcasting of this truth throughout Great Britain, France, and the United States. Tt is already familiar to the peoples of Germany, Italy, and Japan" There is so much terror of war spread among the nations to- day that the popular yearning for a rational substitute is immeasur- ably potent, even in those coun- tries whose, leaders talk only of military virtues. Nor is there an important people in the world that has any genuine confidence in force as means for solving their problems. The parade of military might is everywhere the stuffed shirt of political despair. World opinion today is bewildered and
 bitterly djscontented. It is ready for a sudden reversal of the drift toward clamity. Hitler and Mus solini are merely the phenomena of desperation. The recent law less adYenturing of Japan is no more than an alternative to po- litical hoplessness. If peace of- fered any real prospect of rational and tolerables eadjustments, it's glad acceptance would be compel led by overwhelming majorities. Honest concessions and sincere CO., operation from the great possess ing nations would receive hope and win support in the desperately needy stations. The resulting se- curity and prosperity would easily reimburse and sustain them all."
 But what can be done about it ? How break the present deadlock of frantic fear and stupid prece- dent? No ordinary diplomatic procedure will suffice. Something just short of a miracle is demand ed. Some dramatic gesture of statesmanship, so evidently. sincere and so adequate that it will cap- ture the imagination and reassure the hearts of despairing peoples. It might originate in three-pow- CT conference of Great Britain, France, and the United States. The purpose of this conference would be to formulate concessions. more