The Washington times., 1935-01-23
At PARLEY
! HERE TOLD Of
!. DANGERS
Speakers Point to Trouble
! In Japan and China As
Forerunner of Conflict

Unanimity of opinion over
threats of world war, particularly
from China and Japan, featured
today's session of the Cause and
Cure of War Conference.
The most pessimistic Of three
speakers was Prof. Grover Clark,
Of Wellesley College, who told
some 1000 delegates meeting in
the Washington Hotel that recent
actions of the two Far Eastern
countries are leading straight to
a war between East and West
which will destroy all civilization. !"
The speaker described Japan as
d "brazenly faithleSs government
which has flagrantly broken
solemn international pledges to
which it and our own government
were parties"
Threat Seen in China
"A far graver danger of war, he
said, lies with "militarized
China seeking revenge for all the
injuries inflicted on it and on the
rest of the Far East by the West"
Harry Gideonse, University of
Chicago professor, told the dele
gates that in Japan and Ger
many, national self-Sufficiency
are casting their shadows over
the immediate future" and
added:
This > no time to mince
words. Within the next dec
ade, millions of young men all
over the world are likely to
make the traditional futile
sacrifices for ideals that will
seem as musty within another
decade as the war ideals Of
1914-18 seem to us"
Hits Arms Increase
Naming several war threats In
Europe, DR.. Parker Thomas
Moon, of Columbia University, de-
Scribed the "hysterical increase in
Armaments" as the most alarm
ing.
Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt,
mother of several children, who
has worked for many years in
the interest of young people, feels
the youth of the United States
is the most potent factor in turn
ing the nations of the world away
from the brink of war.
Speaking last night at the ban
quet of the organization, Mrs.
Roosevelt spoke of her faith in
American youth and its poSSibili-
%34. irn Che CoiHs
"Of course, there are still some
young people who can be car
ried away by the sound Of
brass bands and Of marching
feet. But the greatest number
of our young People have
learned that war is a stupid
way of settling international
difficulties and that wars in
the past have not settled the
things they were supposed to
at the outset"
FavOrS Court
Mrs. Roosevelt expressed hope
that the Senate would ratify the
League Court protocols. Declaring
that the arguments against en-
trance in the court are good, she
said, nevertheless, United States
ratification would be a splendid
gesture"
One of the greatest factors in
removing the possibility of war,
she said, is to make it unprofit-
able for anyone when war occurs"
She said:
"War has never been profit
able for the man in the trenches,
but it has been for others, and
this must STOP"
Stands on Brink
The world today stands on the
brink of war because two decades
ago the world fought and won
"war to end war" DR.. Louis l..
Mann, Chicago rabbi and a mem
ber of the University of Chicago
faculty, told the conference last
night. He said further:
"The world today is the victim
Of a mad race for competitive
armament and militariZatiOn be-
cause we fought and won a war
TO make the world safe for de-
mOcracy.'"
Urging a boycott Of war by all
religions, the rabbi criticized the
sanction of war by religion when
nations are fighting each other.
He continued that war is founded
on "falsehood and propaganda, "
and that the old idea that God
Is on the side of the right is a
superstition.
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