The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-01-23
.PACIFIST SEES
PERILSFACINC
U,SNPACIFIC
British Author Urges Col
lective Security Replace
10 Isolation Policy
By HENRY WOOD
United Press Staff Correspondent

SAN FRANCISCO. Jan. %,
(uP)-The United States haj
only three possible policies in the
Pacific, according 20 w. Arnold
Forster. technical advisor 20 Rri-
tains Peace Movement. and CO.
author with Sir Normal Angel,
Prof. Gilbert Murrau and LORD
Robert Cecil Of the book "lutclil-
gent Mans Way 10 Prevent Nar.
Forster is touring the United
States % revive interest IN DIS
armament and also 10 arouse =
popular demand for collective Sc
curity as u means of preventing
war.
As regards Americas policy in
the Pacific, Forster declared the
three alternatives are:
Ito abandon all idea of &c
straining Jarans milita,iStS from
doing whatever they will in Asia
and the Western Pacific, and re-
ducc the American navy TO a
coastal defense unit. ,
2-To maintain the traditional!
policy Of seeking to defend ccr,
tain agreed principles of peace
and commercial opportunity IN
China. such Us the Open Door
Policy, even against Japan II ne
ceSSary.
b.. 3-To maintain a long-rangc
navy, as efficient ~ possible Tor
Trans Pacific service, answering
menace with counter-mcnacc, fort
with fort. but making no attempt
TO enlist the cooperation OF the
other powers 10 defend an agreed
rule of peace.
Peril. SEEN IN ISOLATION
Forster said that he would noe
presume TO suggest which OF the
first two policies might be better
for the United States. but insisted
that the third one, which combine,
all of the dangers Of isolation and
of "intervcntiOnOuS nOn-interNen-
ton" must be- the wrong one ne
only for the United States but toT
Europe as well.
Forster declared that the arma-
ment race, which was conceded t"
be one of the principal causes Oh
the World War. has reached pro-
portions that are of the most
alarming character. During the
six years of the arms race before
1914, he said that nations as Il
whole merely increased ornaments
expenditure by about STSo,OOO,-
. 900 within two years. But in the
/. 1925 period, the expenditure
was about 81 ,000.0OO.OOO.
"Three years after the 1882 dis
armament conference began he
said. "thc world was Spendign at
! least double what it spent before
the conference convened. Still!
more important is the increase an
striking power and especially the
power to strike a sudden and de
vastating blow at long range.
Forster said that during the
World War, the greatest number
of amplanes that ever reached
London at one time was %, start
ing fires in five different places.
The recent projection of an in
cendiary bomb. he believes, creates
an entirely new problem for urban
mankind.
FAVoRS COLLECTIVE
SECURITY
As the representative o. the
British Peace Movement, Forster,
Is still an ardent advocate OF col
lective security as the only means
of safeguarding the world against
war. He frankly places the blams
for the breakdown of the League
|, of Nations machinery on the tail
ure Of Great Britain to take a de-
finite stand in the JapaneSe-Man-
= churian and talian-Ethiopian
affairs as well as the European
7, nations TO respond favorably to
the Hoover plan of June, 1882. or
to the Roosevelt plan of May,
H.. 1888.
, As to the present arms race,
Forster declared there are two
questions TO which every nation
: should be called upon TO respond.
The first is whether armamnetS
are being built for enforcing col
lectiye security or whether they
are being amasSed for the private
use of each nation concerned.
- He believes if the latter premise
is true, nothing can save the world
from another disaster similar TO