The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-06-02
WHY ALASKA DEFENSE

WHY ALASkA DEFENSE
 Alaska Delegate Anthony J. Dimond speakin recently before House Representatives in Wash ington in behalf of adequate aid in defense of Alask made this statement:
 The world has not suddenly been reformed, and made pure and noble. There are many national wolves on earth as there ever were nations which are bent on conquest and care not how they acquire wealth and ter ritory and power.
 Fitting and sound as the Delegates remarks wer q few short weeks ago. it is even more so today a a new and apparently more vigorous war threa flashes into the international picture. Almost ove night the Mediterranean has become the scene 0 virtual war Not only have shells been fired but oda Italy lays down an utimatum to Russia that the lat ter can no longer take supplies into Spain Italian warships, their guns bristling have set up what i termed a blockade of the Spanish entrances iron the east
 How apropos were the further remarks of MI Dimond in that speech before the House, almost ol the eve of the present outbreak. when he said:
 It may be said MT Chairman that defen- sve works are unnecessary and that disputes which may arise can be adjusted by harmoni- ous agreement with the nations of the earth. We all wish to heaven that they could but common sense and the history of mankind teach us that it cannot be done. It was not so5long ago that some people blissfuy thought wars were at and end except possibly for little tiny wars among barbarous back ward nations.
 Do we not aii ----s.iI the golden sentiments which voiced when the ne-power treaty signed treaty which guaranteed the sovereignty, the Independence, and the territorial and administrative integrity of China, and in which the nations which signed the treaty including the United States, Bel gum, the British Empire China, France, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands and Portugal, bound themselves to provide the fullest and most un- embarrassed opportunity to China to develop and maintain for herself an effective and stable government, and these nations to re- frain from taking advantage of conditions in China in order to seek special rights and privileges which would abridge the rights of citizens of friendly states? Andswe all know, sadly what happened to that treaty The treaty was signed in 1922 How many years was it before that treaty was just another scrap of paper and the United States of Am erica was the only nation of all the sigma tories to the treaty which lifted it's voice to defend the integrity of the treaty? Have we forgotten what happened to China in viola tion of that treaty? After that experience are we so credulous-ndeed gull libe-as to believe that treaties going to save us or to save the independence of any of the peoples of the world? If so, MT. Chairman, our good genius has forsaken
 It is within the memory of every Member of this House that more hopeful and exalted opinions entertained when the Kellogg Pact was signed the 27th day of August, l928-the treaty that, were told, was to end all The nations which signed that treaty originally were the United States, Germany, Belgium France, Great Britain, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Afr- the ricb Free TtalV Poland, and Czechoslovakia. The treaty, however contained provisions by which other states might also agree to it, and other states, including China did agree to it and became bound by it and became entitled to all of it's protection The purpose of this treaty was to prevent war and the high contracting parties. as they described themselves in the treaty, solemnly declared in the names of their respective peoples that they condemned recourse to for the solution of inter- national controversies. and they each and all renounced it in their relations to an- other, and these same high contracting parties" agreed that the settlement or solution of all disputes conflicts of whatever nature or whatever origin which might arise among them should never be sought except by pacific means Here MT. Chairman we had treaty of universal and everlasting peace and we know what happened to that treaty. We know that it is today as dead door nail and we have good grounds to suspect that the govern ment of no nation, except our own, regards it. or regarded it. anything more than pious gesture A witty Frenchman is once re- ported to have said to his who contemplat- ed marriage, My son, in every marriage of the parties is always taken in; you should try to be the other party" And so with pect to these treaties, MT Chairman, one of the parties one of the nations is always taken in and from sad past experience it would seem that have been uniformly that party and that nation.
 Already the hopeful predictions that the Unite States will keep out of this war if it finally bt oon,ac ara made We all trust that the fOreca