The Washington times., 1938-01-19

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,Favoring an international
police force" to fight a nation
adiudged a lawbreaker by a
community of nations, Clyde
Eagleton, professor of interna'
tional law, New York Univer'
sity, today voiced his views be-
fore the conference. He de-
clared:
Force is an inevitable factor
In human affairs. I would like
to be able to believe, along
with some who are more ideal.
list than I, that human beings
can settle their differences by
calm reason, and that force is
unnecessary; but today, this is
simply contrary to fact. Most
persons do habitually prefer
peace and are unwilling to use
force; but there are always some
persons or some states, who will
resort to force to obtain their
ends. They must be stopped.
If others are to live in peace, and
the only way to stop them is by
superior force.
FORCE NECESSARY
''No state has ever been able
to carry on without sufficient
physical power to stop GRIM
finals.
81 should be unwilling for the
United States to undertake a
war against Japan; I should
not like for the United Sites,
in combination with France and
Great Britain and Russia to
fight Japan, with perhaps also
Germany and Italy, though this
might be better than doing moth
ing; but I would like for the
United States to shoulder her
share in coercive measures un-
dertaken under the authority Of
the community of nation s
against Japan, if Japan were
judged by the community to be
o Iawbreaker.
''My sympathies are with
China in this conflict; I would
like to see some protection
given to American rights and
interests abroad: even admit,
shameful as it may be, that I
have q little national pride
but for none Of these things,
not for another Panay, would
I have the United States declare
war upon Japan. But would
be willing to fight, myself, in
an international police force
sent out against Japan, as an
adjudged law breaker. It is
law and order which wish to
support: and if you call my
police action war, all right-it
IS nevertheless essential and
inevitable"
ECONOMIC BASIS
George Fort Milton, of the
State Department, also speaker
told the women that the chief
force in the ferments of today
are those of an economic char
acCer. He named "those ariS-
ing from the new social atti-
tudes, relations, hopes and aspi-
rations of the peoples: those
which stem from the strong
psychic movements of our minds
and hearts; and then finally
those which result from the
political arrangements Of the
nations" He said:
"All these elements at least
must interest to create an event
or to occasion a trend in human
destiny. And from this uneasy
plexus come out states of hap.
piDess or despair, prosperity or
want, peace or war.
In this amazing modern
world there can be hope for a
valid and enduring peace unless
there shall come to it a general
and pervaSive prosperity"
WHITE HOUSE TEA
Other speakers today include
Prof. Quincy Wright, of the Uni
versity of Chicago, and George
s. MesserSmith, of the State De.
partment. Sessions this after.
noon are being taken up with a
number of separate round-table
discussions on 1.-THE Far East,
IAN International Police Force, Z"
"spain in Europe" Danger
Spots In Eastern Europe" and
international Labor Organiza.
ton"
At 4::3O o'clock today Mrs.
Roosevelt will entertain the
delegates to the conference at
the White House for tea.
The most brilliant gathering
OF the entire conference will be
held tonight when the annual
banquet takes place in the ball
room of the Washington Hotel
Presided over by the national
hairm N, Miss Josephine
Schain, of New York city, the
\ principal speakers will be Mrs,
Roosevelt. Mrs. Carrie Chap
man Gait, honorary chairman
Of the conference and veteran
peace leader, and Mrs. Ruth
Bryan Owen Rohde, former
minister to Denmark.