The Washington times., 1936-05-25
NEYLAN WARNS COLLEGE YOUTH
OF FOREIGN PROPAGANDA

ATLANTA. Ca, May Is U.SO.
Warning of the imminence OF an
other great war and of the perllS
of European propaganda in this
country, John Francis Neylan, dis
tinguished San Francisco attorney
and member of the board OF re-
gents of the University of Cali
fornia, told the graduating class
of Oglethrope University here last
night:
There is no essential difference
between communism and NazllSm,
because there is no essential dlt-
ference between relationships"
SCOTS at NERVES"
1.-THE person who chooses fasclSm
for security will inevitably find
himself as disilluSioned as the
workingman who is defrauded INTO
accepting communism.
Therefore, when you encounter
Russian propaganda on the col
lege campus ask yourself on what
possible basis person accuS-
toned to freedom can find SYM
pathy with any dictatorship, what
ever its label"
Neylan, who delivered the bacca-
laureate address at Oglethorpe,
ridiculed the idea that the people
of the entire world are in highly
nervous state, eager to initiate
great changes in economic and
political systems. He asserted that
the millions of human beings pop
ulating this earth ARE not con-
cerned with any problems other
than the pressing one Of getting
today the minimum requirement
of food and water to sustain life
tomorrow"
Keep Out, He Warns
Beseeching Americans to keep
out Of European wars and foreign
entanglementS, Neylan said:
Long preeminent in the art OF
mass murder, Europe for centuries
has levied toll upon the rest of the
world, and in 1914 imported to her
battlefieldS or persuaded to go
there millions of youth from other
lands who had no part in the max
ing OF the SenSeleSS mess, and who
were beguiled by the idea of end
ing all wars and making the world
safe for democracy.
Ten million of the finest youth
of the world horribly slaughtered.
twice that number more or less
seriously wounded or manned, sew
eral hundred million people shaken
in physical health, all Europe
bankrupt and the rest of the
world staggering under a noun
tain Of debt. Sacred international
obligations an object of derision.
What a result for intelligent men
to contemplated"
Exchange Of Tyranny
Describing the events of the II
intervening years, Neylan contin-
ued:
They have witnessed the ex-
change of one form of hateful
tyranny for another. A dictator
has Supplanted car. In Italy a
glamorouS figure has announced
to the world that democracy was
a farce and began the laying Of
the foundation for the restoration
OF the glory that was Rome.
In Germany a fuehrer occupies
the place of an emperor; an
nounces that there is but one will
in the nation, and that is his will.
I'm France there has been
passionate activity to complete
a military machine of surprising
efficiency. In England there
has been a hardening of the
cold and resOlute purpose not
only to retain every foot Of soil
conquered through centuries,
but likewise all territory taken
from the SO-called loser of the
last war.
And over the entire Continent
the preliminary bars of the orch
estral accompaniment Of the Eu-
ropean dance of death are issuing
from the lathes and machines of
the armament factories.
League Record Speaks
"There are those who, with
President Wilson, believed sin
cerely in the League of Nations,
and even some who believe at
this late date that it is an agency
of peace.
1.-THE record of the League
Is a bedraggled document
Overspread with hypOcriticaI
resolutions adopted at moments
it was tamely doing the bid
ding of a few powerful nations
which consulted their own self
ish interests.
I'm the house of commons
the League of Nations has been
described accurately as an un-
buried corpse of doubtful repu-
tatiOn.
"A providential dispensation
saved the United States from in
volvement in it,"
Discusses Far East
Referring to the likelihood of
war in the Far East, the speaker
said:
"The impotence of Europe to
commit suicide may be re-
strained temporarily by the pos
sibility, now accepted as a GER
tainty in Europe, that war in
the West will be the signal for
Japan to strike at the great oil
resources of the Far East which
she needs, and which, therefore.
in accord with diplomatic moral