Evening star., 1937-10-22
Other Nations Are
Warned in
Talk.
DEGREE GIVEN
TO SECRETARY
Hermit-Like Life Costly,
He Tells Cana.
dians.
BY CONSTANTINE BROWN.


afternoon added another warning to
the other nations and to the American
people that America can no longer
follow an isolationist policy.
In a speech. made at the University
of Toronto, Canada, where he re-
ceived an honorary LID degree, Mr..
Hull said: Theoretically, it is pos
sible for an individual to lead a
hermit existence and for family or
a community to segregate itself and
attempt to live solely within and
unto itself. But in the end an inexor-
able price must be paid for such isola-
ton; and directly or indirectly that
price is always paid by the individual" ="
Mr.. Hulrs address, following Presi-
dent Roosevelt's speech in Chicago
October 5, is expected to have further
repercussion on the totalitarian states.
Activity in Europe.
At this time, when France and
Great Britain are endeavoring to find
some peaceful solution to the Euro
pean problems and the Brussels con-
ference to settle" the Sino-Japanese
conflict is awaited, Mr.. Hull consid-
cred it necessary to give the dictator
ships fair warning that America is
not isolated from the rest of the world.
He emphasized once more the i'm
portance of respecting international
treaties and agreements which have
been signed by all nations of their
own free will. He apparently had par
ticularly in mind the pacts which
were signed after the Versailles treaty.
Mr.. Hull indicated once more that
in the same way community cannot
exist without its citizens respecting
certain well-established rules and reg
ulations. In international relation
ships the same rules must also be
scrupulously followed.
Basis for Orderly Government.
"Order within community or ma
ton" said MIR. Hull, must necessarily
be based upon general observance of
law by individual citizens. Let such
observance waver through a flouting
of existing laws by any substantial por-
ton of the community or nation, and
the whole structure of civilized exist
ence in that community or nation will
become impaired and will ultimately
disintegrate. Order in international
relations is just as vital as it is in
relations within nation"
The Secretary of State, like the
President, still hopes that law and
order will prevail in the relationship
within nations despite the fragrant
breaches which have occurred in the
last few years because the "have-nots"
have taken the law-the jungle law
into their hands.
All nations have signed with en-
thusiasm the outlawry- -of-war pact
and many other non-aggression ana
mediation agreements. Very few,
however have observed them.
"The maintenance of international
order depends not only upon the ac-
ceptance by nations of agreed rules
of conduct" Mr.. Hull warned the
world. but also upon the observance
Of such rules"
Breach of Agreement Hit.
And with an eye on the dictators
who have scrapped all the agreements
signed voluntarily since 1920 he add
ed: 1.-THE very essence OF mterna-
tional agreement is destroyed If any
party arrogates to itself a position OF
superiority with regard to other par
ties, or the right solely by its own
decision. to denounce it or to alter
the application of its terms"
On the eve of the Brussels meeting
MIR. Hull said once more to those who
will participate at that conference,
and especially to the Japanese:
"There must be a willingness to ad-
Just differences by peaceful means
without the exaction of victory or
the infiiction of humiliation - y"
He concluded his address by vividly
describing the horrors which a war,
in the present state of advancement
of scientific discoveries might bring
about. And because of these horrors,
he declared there are seeds of hope"
that the leaders of nations will not
lead their people into such a holo-
caust. But before ending his talk,
not only to the faculty and the stu
dents of the University of Toronto
but to the whole world at large, he
admonished once more the totalitarian
states.
Significant Warning.
When he significantly said: Inter
ference by one nation in the domestic
affairs of another" he evidently had
s~sv .;v>I o<S ,fT TtoJ fV1C in,
of Germany in Czechoslovakia and
OF Japan in China. He added "Re-
fusa1 by a nation to recognize and
respect the territorial integrity of
another, represent still other types of
lawlessness in international relation
ship which destroy order based on
law They too frequently result in
armed conflict"
Warning to Americans.
Addressing himself indirectly to the
American people, Mr.. Hull warned
them not to consider themselves safe
in the event of another world confla-
grafton because of the many thousands
of miles which separate us from the
two war-ridden continents. Under
modern conditions, no nation escapes
the repercussions of a major armed
conflict in the world. However far
they may be removed from the actual
fighting, all nations feel their morale
weakened by the horror of war and
their well-being impaired by the proc
esses of disruption and ruin which
spread in overwhelming circles from
the territories being laid waste by