Evening star., 1936-11-23
MORAL INFLUENCE
OF j. 5. ON WORLD
HELDFORGOTTEN.
Lord Marley Tells Town Hall
America Has an Inferi.
ority Complex.
PR0P0UNDS 3.P0INT
PROGRAM IN FAR EAST
Japan's Aggressiveness Due to
Need for Raw Material, Brit.
ish Peer Declares. :.

The United States has an inferlcr-
ity complex which makes it forget
how important its opinion is TO the
rest of the world, Lord Marley. deputy
speaker of the British House of Lords.
told Town Hall last night.
StreSsing the importance of the
moral influence of America on the
rest Of the world. the English peer
propounded a three-polnt program
for the United States in the Far East,
including definition Of the aggressor
in case of war, reafirmation Of the
Stimson doctrine of non-recognition'
Of territorial readjustments by means
OF force, and refusal OF help for an
aggressor in war. ..
The address, which dealt with
America and the Pacifc-Is the Fu-
ture With Japan" was the second in
the third annual series Of lecture.
Lord Marley took the place Of Sal
vador de Madariaga, former Spanish
Ambassador to the United States, who
was injured recently IN an automobile
accident in England. He has been
booked to speak March 81 instead. e,
Like Man on Bicycle.
The noted Briton, insisting IT,
cooperation between the Uni;
States and Great Britain would i,
sure peace in the Far East as well
the world, compared Japan to a ma :.
on a bicycle. If she stops now shc
will fall OF. That is why she left tn
League, because 1t might have been
an obstacle to her plans He also
said the United States would have a =
difficult time with Japan If left alone
in the Far East
Discounting the population problem
as the reason for Japan's aggressiy.
attitude, he expressed the belief that
raw materials was her chief problem.
Japan must trade" he said. Dur
ing the war while the United States
and Great Britain we're developing ar
maments and producing war supplies
Japan developed an immense indus
trialization for the Far Eastern trade,
which she took over from the warning
nations. At the end of the war she
found herself overindustrialized for
peace-time needs, and with insufficient
raw materials resources.
Japan must 60 forward with her
program to obtain raw materials. She
does not need foreign territory as out
let for her surplus population. Ex-
perts have found the Japanese rate
Of population increase diminishing
so that by 1855 the population will be
stationary and will in fact begin to
decrease"
Cites Roosevelt Trip.
He cited President Roosevelts Jour-
ney to Buenos Aires for the opening
Of the Inter-American Peace Confer
ence next month as indicative of the
growing importance of the Pacific for
the United States.
"A situation is developing which
the United States as a whole does not
realize" he said. although it is a good
thing the administration takes the
matter as seriously as it does. .
This situation is a growing SYM
pathy for Fascist developments in
COubAl <A11lC1LCd, Oll ILIC CdSUCIu GlQc
for Germany and Italy, on the west
ern side for japan. There are serious
developments in this connection. A
Fascist mentality in South America
may act as valuable support for Japan
in the Pacific"
In emphasizing the necessity for
Anglo-American cooperation he de-
plored the departure of the Unit ID
States from the British Empire, bla...-
ing it on the stupidity Of the British
administration Of those days. He con-
sidered Canada the means to bring
the United States back into the en-
pire, by linking the policies of this
country and Great Britain.
He also took the view that Siberia
is an influence for peace in the Far
East, and declared it was the vulner-
ability of Japan to aerial attack from
Vladivostok. in Eastern Siberia, which
has turned Japan southwark and into
the Pacific
The new air route In the Pacific
will have profound effect on whether
the United States can hold what 1t has
in the Pacific, he said.
Questioned by Panel.
The panel questioning was carried
on by Sir Willmott Lewis, Washington
correspondent of the London Times;
Constantine Brown, foreign news
writer of The Evening Star; William
Crane Johnstone, dean Of Junior Col
lege, George Washington University,
and C. Walter Young legal adviser to
the Lytton Commission. The meeting
was conducted by Huston Thompson,
president.
Sir Willmott, expressing the view
that the United States appeared
headed for liquidation Of its obliga.
tions outside of this continent, In.
quired whether there Is q possibility
of physical Intervention by the United
States and Great Britain against the
growing power Of Japan.
Lord Marley, in reply, doubted the
existence Of the necessary unity with.
in the United States for such physical
intervention. and favored avoidance Of
entangling alliances and non-mefn.
bership in the League as the best
course for the United States.
Speaker next week, will be Agnes
McPhail. only woman member Of the
Canadian Parliament. Her topic will