Evening star., 1935-04-27
JAPANESE ENVOY :.
AMONG SPEAKERS
AT LAW BANQUET
Brazilian Ambassador, Sen
ator Nye and R. L. 0'Brien
Also on Program.
DR.. SCOTT REELECTED
PRESIDENT OF SOCIETY
Stimson Warns Neutrality Offers
No. Certainty of Peace, in
Address Last Night.

Three days of discussion of the prob
lem of neutrality confronting the
United States will culminate tonight
when the American Society of Inter-
national Law hears Ambassador Hirosi
Saito of Japan, Ambassador Oswaldo
Aranha of Brazil. Senator Gerald P.
Nye of North Dakota and Robert Lin
coin O'Brien, chairman of the United
States Tariff Commission, at its annual
banquet at the Willard Hotel.
DR.. James Brown Scott, president
Of the society, was reelected for the
sixth consecutive time at the business
session this morning. Elihu Root,
president from 1906 to 1924, was re-
elected honorary president.
Vice Presidents Renamed.
The following honorary vice presi-
dents were reelected: Former Secre-
tary of War Newton D. Baker, Philip
Marshall Brown, Charles Henry Butler,
Frederic R. Coudert. Chief Justice
Evans Hughes, Secretary of State Cor
dell Hull, John Bassett Moore, Jack
son H. Ralston, DR.. Leo S. Rowe,
director general of the Pan-American
Union; former Secretary of State
Henry L. Stimson, George w. Wicker
sham and George Grafton Wilson.
Chandler r. Anderson. Manley o.
Hudson and Jesse S. Reeves were re-
elected vice presidents.
George A. Finch was renamed Sec
retary, Lester H. Woolsey, treasurer,
and Mr.. Butler, chairman of the ex-
ecutive council.
The following were elected members
of the executive council to serve until
1888: Eleanor Wyllys Allen, Edwin M.
Borchard, Francis Deak, Assistant
Secretary of Commerce John Dickin-
son, Clyde Eagleton, Ellery c. Stowell,
Senator Ebert D. Thomas of Utah
and Amry Vandehbosch.
Warming that neutrality offers no
certain road for keeping out of war
was given to the society at its session
last night BY Stimson in empha-
sizing the need for cooperation By
the United States in peace efforts Of
the world.
THE only certain way to keep out
of a great war is to prevent that
war from taking place, and the only
hope of preventing war or even sue
cessfully restricting it is by the
earnest, intelligent, and unselfish CO.
operation of the nations of the world
toward tAat end" he declared. Until
America Is willing with sympathy and
intelligence to do her pa4t in such
an endeavor, the life ofs our whole
a;vr;1i1ottnv1 ho a. tho
mercy of the next war"
The possibility that there could be
no such thing as neutrality in the
face of collective action of the ma
tions against an aggressor was cited
by Col Stimson as one result of the
Kellogg pact to outlaw war.
Cites Obligation Under Pact.
Our own Government as a sig
natory of the Kellogg pact is party
to a treaty which may give us rights
and impose on US obligations in re-
spect to the same contest which is
being waged by these other nations" :"
he said.
THE nation which they consider an
aggressor and whose actions they are
seeking to limit and terminate may be
by virtue of those same actions a
violator of obligations to us under the
Kellogg pact. Manifestly, this in
itself involves to some extent modi-
fication in the assertion of the tradi-
tional rights of neutrality The very
conception of collective action against
a breach of the peace involves a
change in the Old-fashioned concep-
ton of the attitude of neutral. One
can hardly be neutral in thought or in
action between a sheriff's posse and a
breaker of the peace, and in domestic
law to assist felon is a crime in
itself"
Assistant Secretary of Commerce
Dickinson, speaking previously, doubt
ed whether we would lose less by
acuuiescence in the broadening of the
rights of belligerents at the expense of
neutrals thai by participation in the
war
He expressed the belief we should
have a considered policy of neutrality
ready for use in case of conflict, but
foresaw many controversies arising
during wartime which could not be
provided for beforehand.
He suggested that the President be
empowered now to enter into agree
ments with other nations for the pro-
lection of our trade in case of war.
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