Evening star., 1938-01-22
PEACE |SP0SS|BLE,
WAR PARLEY TOLD
Economic Weapons Can
Halt Aggressors, Is View
of French Leader.

With the warning that one.third Of
the worlds population Is enmeshed In
war but that the peaceful nations still
have It in their power TO make war
. failure for anybody who resorts to it
in violation of our common pledges"
Pierre de LAnux, director Of the Paris
Bureau of the League Of Nations, last
night brought to a close the Thir-
teenth National Conference on the
Cause and Cure of War.
'"The time is past for kind-hearted
hopes" M. de Lanux told the dele
gates. War is on. .H
"Pessimists say that it will spread
further. Optimists say that it will be
brought to close. do not know how
to qualify those who imagine that It
can 60 on forever and engulf every
body but ourselves"
The hope for peace, he said, is to
find something more than just our
pious desire that aggressors will change
their mind" The nations which de-
sire peace, he said, must see to it that
aggression does not pay. Otherwise,
he cautioned, war will spread.
Economic Weapons Cited.
If the present aggressions are sue
cessful. either in the form of wealth
or territorial expansion or glory or
whatever form victory can take, there
will be more wars. because nothing
is more contagious than crime followed
by impunity," he said.
The nations which truly desire peace,
he said. need not resort to military
means to halt aggressor nations. They
must use economic weapons which will
deprive the aggressor Of the means of
carrying on war. This must be done
at once, he warned. before the aggres-
sors can seize territories which will
supply them the necessary war ma
terials to make them independent of
supplies from the peaceful nations,
MY belief" he said, "is that this is
the last call for peace by peaceful
means. After very short period of
adjustment and consolidation Of their
gains, aegressors will be able to dis
regard our threat to cut necessary war
supplies from them; and if they direct
their next attack, with increased power,
against our own possessions, as they
are logically bound to do, we shall have
only the choice between fight and
submission"
Says Swift Action Needed,
He warned that the peace-lovinr
nations must act swiftly, especially
II all measures for mutual protection
IN case of violence must be taken
without the United States participat-
ing Single-handed action by any
nation In the interests of peace by
peaceful means, he said, would bring
hostility and long resentment" but
there must be concerned action ito
make sure that he who resorts to war
can reap no reward whatsoever, and
to make sure that he knows it,"
Other speakers at the closing ses-
slons of the conference yesterday
afternoon and last night were Joseph
Cadden, chairman of the Organizing
Committee, World Youth Congress.
who pointed out that youth is "a
primary raw material of war" and
that youth must unite in behalf Of
peace for its own protection: Mrs.
George E. Barr of the Industrial
Department, Y. w. c. A.; Louise
Morley. International Relations Club:
Bryn Mawr, Ruth Elizabeth Atkins,
Federation of Women's Clubs prize
winner. and Mrs. Harper Sibley, wife
of the former president of the United
States Chamber Of Commerce.