Evening star., 1938-09-02
KENNEDY POINTS
PEACE PATHWAY
Calls on Europe to Follow
Example of Britain
and America.
By the Associated Press.

oS VIC hSSOCiAtCQ 6lCb8.
ABERDEEN, Scotland, Sept. q
United States Ambassador Joseph p.
Kennedy gave Europe's leaders a tip
today-to follow the example Of the
United States and Great Britain in
settling their differences.
He expressed confidence that British
American devotion to the principle of
good natured settlement" would
keep us out of war"
The Ambassador spoke at a lunch
con preceding a Scottish American
Anglican Church ceremony at the
Cathedral Of Aberdeen.
His reference was to settlement of
British and American claims over tiny
Canton and Enderbury Islands in the
South Pacific by which both countries
decided to use them in common.
we have just come through most
of dangerous summer when rumors
Of war are thick on every hand and
when actual armed conflicts are in
progress in different parts of the
world" Kennedy said.
Inability Leads to Fighting.
Fighting. whether called war or
not, and threats Of fighting come
from the impatience and inability of
leaders to work out pacific settlements.
They are unwilling or unable to
keep hold of the past while marching
toward the future
They feel they must break violently
with what has existed, in their zeal to
hasten what they believe is proper
development, but breaks are unneces-
Sary
We believe We have just witnessed
an example of good-natured settlement
of profound difference of opinion be-
tween Great Britain and the United
States-a cameo Of what world settle
ment might be if the same intelligent
good were always ex-
hibited by different nations.
Both countries believed that some
specks in the Pacific Ocean. called
islands by courtesy, belonged to them.
Problem Was Pressing.
1T was impossible to get at the
merits of the respective claims in time
to solve the current problem, which
was their use in the development of
civil aviation across the Pacific
The two governments saw alike in
one thing-that the question of sov-
ereignty must not be allowed to stand
in the way of aviation's success Just
now when it is making such useful
strides forward
President Roosevelt had a happy
inspiration.
He had me suggest to British
authorities that the islands be admin
istered jointly by the two governments
for a protracted period of time.
During that time the question of
their real utility would be settled and
there would be time to investigate te
patiently and unheatedly the issue of
their ownership"
The suggestion was cordially re-
ceived at the BRITISH foreign Office
and the matter was settled along those
lines"
Mr.. Kennedy made a plea for re-
newal of faith and spiritual courage
In the world in his address at the
church ceremony.
1T appears to me-" he said, that
We nave come to point where
spiritual values have so declined in
men that incentive is disappearing.
We must reawaken the flame OF
faith and spiritual courage which has
always enheartened men of right
vision in the worlds history"
Lays Memorial Corner Stone.
The Ambassador laid the corner
stone OF memorial to Bishop Samuel
Seabury. who was born November 30.
1929 in Ledyard. Conn. and was con-
secrated Bishop of Connecticut Novem-
Der IA, 1874, in Aberdeen.
The memorial is an extension and
enlargement of ST. Andrews. Money
for it was raised in the United States.
Referring to fears of war in the
world, Mr.. Kennedy declared:
We must give our young men and
women who are just coming of age
something else to hope for than a
short life of carrying gun. ..
Certainly the peoples of the world
do not want to fight each other. Their
leaders say that they themselves do
not want war unless they are forced
into it.
In such circumstances it should
not be beyond the reach of human in
telllgence to prevent the disaster every
one seems to fear.
L believe it can be done by the
application Of principles we have been
discussing by faith, by spiritual
courage, by loyalty to right dealing
and by the exercise Of common sense"