Evening star., 1938-08-17

problems both before Germany seized
Austria and after.
Throughout, Britain has looked to
the United States as a possible partner.
Press and pulpit are increasingly
laudatory toward the prospect of
Anglo American collaboration and re-
Gently q part Of the press has been
limiting 1t would be good idea If King
George would tour America.
The Evening News editorially re-
fiecting the fear that Germany might
precipitate conflict, said "the people
Of this country are uneasy because
they feel that authoritarian states, and
Germany is not the least among them,
still regard war, in the wording OF the
long-forgotten Kellogg pact, as an in
strument Of policy and even as q factor
without which their ideal citizen can
not rise to his true stature"
Criticism in London.
Lord Rothermere's Evening News
criticized Mr.. Hull's speech under the
heading, "Far-Off Fulminations."
The paper. with the same publishers
Daily Mail, leads that section Of the
British press which most openly is
inclined toward friendship with Ger
many and Italy.
The Evening News said: American
detachment is nowadays more INTEL
lectual than physical, but in
the words with which Mr.. Cordell Hull
condemned the rest of the world ="
there sounded that austere and school,
mastery remoteness that is sense
of superiority to the rest of effete
and naughty mankind which perhaps
irritates more than it assists"
The editorial concluded: Noble SEN
timents have their place. Moral in
dignation even is sometimes a worthy
quality. But at the present moment
in world affairs tact and restraint are
major virtues"
The criticism surprised readers ac-
customed to unanimous press admira-
ton for such pronouncements from
either Mr.. Hull or President Roose-
welt.
The ro-government Telegraph. while
complimenting the speech, took the
occasion to express the wish that the
United States would take international
initiative in something more than
words.
Praised In Franco
High officials and spokesmen at the
French foreign Office enthusiastically
praised the speech, saying the senti-
ments he expresses are those OF
France"
The French press, following the lead
of the foreign ministry. printed large
extracts of the speech, some of the
papers headlining it Americas warm
ing to the totalitarian states
The speech shows that the leaders
of Americas foreign policy are alive
to the dangers in Europe-we hope
other nations will see the same lesson
in his speech that we do" said one Of
the highest officials at the Quai
D'Orsay
The Nazi foreign Office at Berlin
said in its official organ, Duetsche
Diplomatisch Politische Korrespond-
enz, that Secretary Hull showed
narrow mental horizon" in his inter-
national broadcast.
The inspired article left no doubt
that the German government resented
what was termed Americas EN-
deavors to act the role of moral
preacher"
Hull is following the present line
of American foreign policy, which con-
tinues to move away from the much
vaunted American non-intervention in
the affairs of other states and par
ticularly foreign continents" the ar
ticle said.
Its endeavors to act the role of
moral preacher to the rest of the world
are becoming more evident.
Failure to Understand"
1T is impossible to overlook In
Hulls speech notable failure to un-
derstand the causes and developments
of affairs outside the United States.
ITO extoT ideals of individual liberty
as q panacea for all the ills of the
world is evidence of narrow mental
horizon which is hardly calculated to
attract other peoples"
The article said it was Germany's
serious desire that all differences be-
tween states be settled amicably, but
added: 1T will not be sasy for Hull
to prove by examples of the past that
the democratic world, as whose inter-
prefer he speaks, has made serious ef-
forts to recognize the causes of injus-
tices or find equitable solutions to re-
move them"
1t continued:
only he who measures stability and
prosperity in the relations between
nations by the arrangements of the
year 1919 (meaning by the Versailles
treaty. can raise up the courage to
blame and reject the natural changes
and imperative arrangements in the
political world as acts of violence
tending to lawlessness.
But one needs hardly remind Hull
that it was his own country that was
the first that refused to be bound to the
so-called peace treaties. thereby. at
least in the past, keeping aloof from
their evil spirit"
Hailed in Yugoslavla.
An authoritative Yugoslav source
said today the speech had made a
deep impression in Yugoslavia.