Evening star., 1936-12-06
Address of Secretary Hull
Buenos Aires Peace Conference Told Specific, EN-
bracing Program Should Constitute
Arnnory of Peace.
Armory of Peace.

quate. It is no exclusive policy
aimed at the safety or supremacy
OF q few, leaving others to strug-
gle with distressful situations. It
demands no sacrifices comparable
to the advantages which will re.
suit to each nation and to each
individual.
In these circumstances the rep
resentatives of the 81 American
republics should frankly call the
attention of the people of this
hemisphere to the possibilities Of
danger to their future peace and
progress. and at the same time
set forth the numerous steps that
can we'll be undertaken as the
most effective means Of improv-
ing and safeguarding the condi-
tions Of permanent peace.
While carefully avoiding any po-
litical entanglements, my Govern
ment strives at all times to CO.
operate with other nations to
every practical extent in support
of peace objectives, including re-
duction or limitation of arma-
ments, the control of traffic in
arms, taking the profits out Of
war. and the restoration of fair
and friendly economic relation
ships.
We reject war as a method Of
settling international disputes, and
favor such methods as conference,
conciliation and arbitration.
Peace can be partially safeguard
ed through international agree.
ments. Such agreements, however,
must reflect the utmost good faith.
This alone can be the guarantee Of
their significance and usefulness.
Good Will and Sincerity
Essential to Peace.
Contemporary events clearly
show that, where mutual trust,
goodwill and sincerity of purpose
are lacking pacts or agreements
fail. and the world is seized by
fear and left to the mercy of the
wreckers.
The conference has the duty of
considering all peace proposals Of
merit. Let me enumerate and
briefly discuss eight separate and
vitality important principles and
proposals for q comprehensive
peace program and peace struc-
ture. They are not designed to be
all-inclusive.
In considering them we should
be guided by the knowledge that
other forces and agencies of peace
exist besides those made and to be
made on our continents. What we
do contemplates no conflict with
sincere efforts the world over.
First, would emphasize the
local and unilateral responsibility
OF each nation carefully to educate
and organize its people in opposi-
ton to war and its underlying
causes. Support must be given to
peace. to the most effective policies
for its preservation, and, finally,
each nation must maintain condi-
tions within its own borders which
will permit it to adopt national poll
icies that can be peacefully pur-
sued.
More than any other factor, a
thoroughly informed and alert
public opinion in each country as
to the suitable and desirable rela-
tionships with other nations and
the principles underlying them en-
ables a government in time of crisis
to act promptly and effectively for
peace.
The forces of peace everywhere
are entitled to function both
through governments and through
public opinion. The peoples Of the
world would be far wiser If they
expended more Of their hard
earned money in organizing the
forces Of peace and fewer Of the
present $4,000, 600, 900 in educating
and training their military forces.
Since the time when Thomas
jefferson insisted upon a decent
respect to the opinions Of man
kind" public opinion has controlled
foreign policy in all democracies.
It is, therefore, all important that
every platform, every pulpit and
every forum should become con-
slant and active agencies in the
great work of education and organi-
zation.
The limited extent of such highly
organized and intelligent public
opinion in support Of peace Is by
far the largest drawback to any
plan to prevent war. Truly the
first step is that each nation must
thus make itself safe for peace.
This. too. develops a common will
for freedom, the soil from which
peace springs.
People everywhere should be
made to know Of the peace mech
anisms. Even more, there should
be brought home to them the
knowledge that trade, commerce.
finance, debts, communications
have q bearing on peace.
The workman at his bench, the
farmer on his land, the shop
keeper by his shelves, the clerk at
his books, the laborer in factory.
plantation, mine or construction
camp must realize that his work Is
the work Of peace; that to interrupt
It for ends Of national or personal
rapacity is to drive him toward
quick death by bayonets, or to
slower, but not less grievous, SUI.
fering through economic distress.
Facts to Demonstrate
In all Countries.
In all our countries we have
scholars who can demonstrate
these facts; let them not be silent.
Our churches have direct con-
tact with all groups; may they
remember that the peacemakers are
the children of God. We have
artists and poets who can distfll
their needed knowledge into tren-
chant phrase and line; they have
work to do. Our great journals on
both continents cover the world.
Our women are awake; our youth
sentient; our clubs and organiza.
tions make opinion everywhere.
There is a strength here available