Evening star., 1938-07-10
WESTERN WORLD
WARNED BY DODD
u. S. Must Share Blame for
Collapse Of Peace, Says
Ex-Ambassador.
By the Associated Press.

ES the Associated Press.
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. July o.
William E. Dodd, former Ambassador
from the United States to Germany,
blamed governments and certain
privileged business groups" today for
the failure of former President Wood
row Wilson's plan Ito put world peace
on a permanent basis"
Speaking before the twelfth annual
session Of the University Of virginias
Institute of Public Affairs, DR.. Dodd
charged the United States are as
much to blame for the grave dangers
of the present as any other country"
He told how the people OF practi-
cally every country hoped and prayed
for Woodrow Wilson's success. yet the
governments and certain privileged
business groups defeated the effort to
put world peace on permanent basis
and to effect commercial cooperation
among all people with 4 League of
Nations to apply the system"
Fears for Western World.
Western civiliza ton with its reli-
gious. personal and economic freedom
is in grave danger. the historian and
diplomatist declared in the concluding
address Of the first week Of the in.
stitute. Another world war. he added,
would almost certainly wreck the gov
ernments and peoples of this time.
Tracing developments Of interna-
tional history from the outbreak Of the
World War in 1914 to the present. DR..
Dodd said every real reform move Of
1918 to 1920 had been defeated.
England and France were accused
by DR.. Dodd Of encouraging Italy to
take all Of Ethiopia in 1886.
His address tonight followed q talk
on the use OF national power by an
Englishman. William Arnold Forster.
technical adviser to the National Peace
Council of London.
Earlier today, contrasting viewpoints
on the question Of colonial expansion
were expressed by Arnold Forster and
by Commentators Luigi Villari, former
Italian representative of the secre-
tariat of the League Of Nations
Calls Italy Have" Nation.
Italy. through the annexation of
Ethiopia, Villari said. had emerged
from the category of the have not"
nations into that Of the "haves." He
said it was not necessary for the people
OF Italy to think Of fresh conquests-
they will be able to enjoy the fruits
OF work accomplished"
Arnold Forster told the institute
there should be a quicker and more
resolute action to suppress colonial
exploitation. He said 1t was q mistake
to suppose that access to raw mate
rials or outlets for surplus population
could be met by fresh partitions of the
colonial map"
DR.. Dodd. now living at Round Hill,
Va, opened his address with the as
sertion that the war of 1914 to 1918
was the worst known to history, cost
ing 100000 lives. and when 1t was
ended every nation was in q grave
state. Of absolute bankruptcy. The
situation was 50 bad that practically
all peoples were convinced that war
should never again be allowed"
The speaker said the parallel to
this was the economic situation. :" .
at the end Of the great war, two-thirds
OF the American people lived in cities
and unemployment was q fixed condi-
ton. In England and Germany three
fourths of the people lived in large
cities and five to seven million city
workers had nothing to do"