The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1935-12-05

prOvement OF European air service gen.
orally, is the contention.
The air arm Is capable of such swift
action and is so ideally suited to the
policing job, it is felt that nations
could be left to build other arms indi-
vidually, if the airplane were left to
the International authority.
These suggestions for increasing the
power of the league are of course only
of use in helping the league to main
tain its present status and to make
member nations abide by the covenant
that is, by the status quo. They are
Of little assistance In eliminating the
causes of war. And If war is ever to
become thing of the past, If civiliza-
ton is ever to survive, the causes Of
war must be removed.
Accordingly, suggestion Of far
deeper effect, and of far greater cour-
age and thought is that of Sir Samuel
Hoare, the British foreign secretary,
that an inquiry be conducted into the
distribution of raw materials, $50 that
all fear of exclusion or monopoly may
DC icuONcu LUZ al liluc.
Expanding Population"
The desire so often expressed for
room for expanding populations is
largely pose, for history has shown
that very little Of the population of the
cOlonizing country ever moves into the
colony. There are today only about
100000 Europeans in the entire Afri-
can continent, outside the Union of
South Africa and some of the colonies
bordering the Mediterranean sea.
The problem is an economic one
which can be removed, Sir Samuel
feels, by the institution of equitable
trading rights in many of the mandat-
ed areas. During the war, raw ma
terials were controlled by governments,
and were bought and sold to other gov
ernments, at fixed prices. Since the
war this buying and selling has re-
turned to private hands and it is not
a question Of governmental ALLEGATION
at all.
There are certain abuses which must
be avoided or corrected if the free
trade principle can be started with
respect to colonial mandates. There
must be no monopolies which will re-
suit in prices that are excessive to the
disadvantage of importers, and there
must be assurance that prices do not
show too much of an advantage to
the countries possessing the colonies.
Then, too, it must be assured that
there will be no deprivation in case
of war.
In such a conference about raw ma
terials, it would be necessary to put
some sort of international control over
arrangements to restrict production
and raise prices. 1t must be done
without regard for nationality. Pro-
hibitions of materials to any country
or countries for special reasons should
not be done without international
agreement.
The British Trades Union Congress,
with 100000 members, as well as
other organizations, has advocated
what amounts to general pooling Of
all the raw material resources of the
worlds colonies Except those which
are self-governing). Ernest Bivin,
leader of the Trades Union Congress,
has said: IF raw materials were So
cially owned, internationally controlled
and produced according to the worlds
requirements, and could be obtained by
every industrial nation by purchase
and not by conquest, 80 per cent Of
the causes of war would be removed"
Sir Samuel Hoare's suggestion is to
summon a world economic conference
and to place upon its agenda the inter-
national control of the sources of sup
ply of raw materials, with the appli-
cation of the principle of economic
equality of opportunity to all nations
in the undeveloped regions of the
| EARTH"
The next move seems to be up to the
league.
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