The Washington times., 1935-10-12
Neutrality Is
Easier to
Enforce
BY James T. Williams, Jr.

dressed a timely admonition
which President Roosevelt
might well repeat Immediately
to the Department Of State at
Washington.
This admonition was against
the false assumption that be-
cause another European war
has broken out there is a prob
ability Of the United States be.
coming involved in it.
Although there have been
eighty-nine European wars
since the American Government
was established, the United
States has participated in only
one of these conflicts the
Great War.
In spite of this record the
American people are swamped
with propaganda, the purpose
of which appears to be to
frighten them into the belief
that every time there is a
foreign war the United States
will probably become involved
in it.
PROPAGANDA
This propaganda is foreign
propaganda. 1t is formulated
in the chancellories of the Old
World. It is spread throughout
the United States not only by
the agents of alien intrigue but
by their domestic tools and
dupes.
Under the pretense of staging
public protests against Ameri-
can entrance into another for.
eign war these tools and dupes
of alien intrigue are organizing
opposition to American pre-
paredness against war. They
are also organizing new ways
and means of making the United
States a political fetch and
carry for the foreign govern
mentS which dominate the
League of Nations and the
League Court.
The fantastic notion that war
anywhere in the world will
necessarily involve the United
States in the conflict was ex.
posed by no less an authority
than John Bassett Moore the
last time Great Britain and
France tried to drag the United
States into the League Of Ma
tions through the trapdoor OF
the League Court.
Setting forth the American
doctrine of neutrality in a
timely article which appeared in
Foreign Affairs under the title
"An Appeal to Reason" John
BaSsett Moore, preeminent
among living writers on the
law Of nations, said in part:
"It is argued that increased
population, industrialiSm and in.
terdependence, and the in
creased variety and speed Of
communication, have made neu"
trality increasingly ineffective,
and have also made it likely that
war, when it starts in any part
of the world will envelop the
whole.
I'm reality, the better and
speedier the means Of cOmmu'
nicatiOn, the more effectively
can q government enforce its
neutrality. That the enforce
ment of neutrality by the United
States became easier and more
effective with improvement in
communications is as notorious
as it was natural.
"The suppOsitiOn that the
recent Great War is entitled to
preeminence as q world war,
that improved means Of COM
municatiOn caused it to become
so, and that it shows that every
local war is now likely to cover
the earth, Is remarkably un-
founded"
ERRONEOUS BELIEF
This American statesman,
scholar and patriot reminds his
countrymen that the Great War
did not begin as a local war but
embraced all the European great
powers and some Of the lesser.
Nor did it exceed the spread Of
all previous wars. In fact it
did not equal that Of some OF
them.
"Its extent in no sense re-
suited from improved means Of
communication" declares DIR.
Moore, speaking out Of the full.
ness of his knowledge Of history.
"The numerous local wars that
have since occurred, but have
remained local, clearly demon
strate that the supposed hkeli-
hood NJ snread iS fanciful"