Evening star., 1939-01-23
Peace Group
Hears Warniinq
On Defense
Cause and Cure of
War Body Told Not to
Be Carried Away

Warning the delegates against al
lowing themselves to be carried away
by cheap formulas" DIR. Esther
Caukin Brunauer, reporting for the
Commission on National Defense at
the 14th Congress on the Cause and
Cure OF War at the Washington
Hotel today, made only recommen-
dations to the conference.
She proposed early appointment
of Permanent Advisory Committee
on National Defense whose respons-
Utilities 1t would be to examine the
needs Of foreign policies and ma
tional defense in view of the con-
stantly changing world situation and
to eliminate conflict of policy be-
tween Government agencies con-
cerned with foreign policy and ma
tional defense. She proposed that
the committee be composed of men,
bers of Congress, of all executive
agencies concerned and representa-
tives of the public.
In making the recommendation
for an advisory committee which
will be included in the recommended
program for 1899 and will be put up
to the conference for adoption on
Wednesday, DR.. Brunauer explained
that the National Defense Commis-
sion was concentrating on building
up new instruments of reason"
Lima Parley's Work Endorsed.
The delegates heard Mrs. William
Dick Sporborg, chairman of the
Pan American Commission of the
Cause and Cure Of War Committee,
termed the Lima solidarity declara-
ton "a clear cut clarion enuncia-
ton Of foreign policy for this West
ern Hemisphere.
. She advocated that the principles
drawn up at Lima be extended to
the rest of the world and that the
declaration be considered and de-
veloped as just as natural and
continual a foreign policy for this
hemisphere as has been the Mon
roe Doctrine.
I'VE must ask ourselves" Mrs.
Sporborg said, whether we can have
two or more foreign policies, one
for this hemisphere and another
for Asia or Europe"
Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt and
Lady Dorothea Layton, wife Of the
publisher of the London News
Chronicle and leader in the Brit
ish peace movement, will address the
delegates at a banquet in the Wash
ington Hotel tonight.
Varying points of view on the for
eign policy Of the United States and
addresses by foreign delegates on
the forces for peace in their coun-
tries were features of yesterdays
meeting. w
Maj. Eliot Speaks.
Maj. George Fielding Eliot, former
military intelligence Office and au-
thor, told the delegates that If mill
tary authorities don't know whether
or not they may be called upon some
day to fight Japan, it is "only rea-
sonable" that they wish to fortify
the island Of Guam.
He explained he neither advocated
nor opposed such fortification, but
said that as long as the military au-
thorities have no clear foreign pol
icy to follow, it was foresight not
militarism that made them urge
arming of the Pacific island.
Devere Allen, editor of Nofrontier
News Service, urged more demo-
cratic" foreign policy with less au-
thority concentrated in the hands of
the President and the State Depart
ment.
Bold leadership in world affairs,
centered In efforts to stop aggres-
sion, to develop constructive poll
cies for world economic and social
justice and rehabilitation of the
Leagues of Nations was urged by
Clark M. Eichelberger, director of
the League of Nations Association
and chairman Of the Committee for
Concerted Peace Efforts.
A policy of vigorous leadership,
he claimed, lis the only way in
which the peace, democracy and
prosperity of the United States can
be preserved and the world brought
to a condition of permanent and dy-
manic peace"