Evening star., 1939-01-25
Cause Of War Par|ey
Holds Neutra|ityLaw
Cause in World Strife
Delegates Contend Act
Has FoiIed and Brings
U. S. Nearer Conflict

U. S. Nearer Conflict
Delegates to the 18th Conference
on the Cause and Cure of War today
indicted neutrality laws as "a major
contributing factor in the present
strife and confusion of the world"
The conference called upon II
participating organizations to re-
double their efforts to lay before
Congress "incontrovertible testi-
mony" of the existing widespread
demand for amendment of the
law.
Neutrality law has failed Of its
purpose" the conference declared
in what it terms "a call to action.
1t was designed to keep the United
States out of war and to prevent
war. 1t has brought the United
States nearer to involvement in
war. It has served to give aid to
treaty-breakers and war makers"
The conference also voted to call
upon its participating organizations
ito give immediate consideration to
the serious problems created by the
Spanish embargo under the Neu-
trality Act and to take such action
as will help remedy the injustices
brought about by its application. ="
Embargo Hit.
The continuance of the embargo,
in view of the failure of the non
intervention plan, which United
States action was intended to
strengthen, has placed the United
States in the position of discrim-
mating against the legitimate gov
ernments to the advantage of the
opposition" the call to action
stated.
Miss Josephine Schain, chairman
of the National Committee of the
Cause and Cure of War, told the
delegates before they voted on the
cause CT action and the recommend
ed program for 1899 that they were
voting as individuals and that
recommendations made at the con-
ference were to be sent back to
member organizations with the hope
they would act on them. The ira
dltion of the conference, she said,
is not to pass resolutions, but to
put the emphasis on urging mem
Der organizations to work for peace.
Passage of the recommended pro-
gram for 1889 followed a heated
session at which opinion was di-
vlded on how far the conference
should go in making its recommen-
dations. The program was divided
into two parts, the first considering
permanent peace machinery, while
the second included current issues.
League of Nations Study Urged.
Appointment of commission,
consisting of the chairman of in
ternational relations of each mem
Der organization, to study and re-
port to the 1910 conference on the
establishment of a permanent So
clety OF nations for the maintenance
OF peace and justice" and in
tenSive discussion of this subject by
the member organizations were rec
commended by the conference for
longtime consideration.
The resolutions on current issues
included:
l. Positive action for cultural,
economic and political co-opera-
ton among the nations in the
Western hemisphere.
z. "Contir1uance of the present
reciprocal trade agreement program.
3. "Convocation in the event of
war or threat of war with other
signatories of anti-war treaties to
determine a basis for peaceful set
tlement. and provision for the adop-
tion of financial and economic meas
ures designed to withhold aid from
treaty violators.
Other Resolutions.
4. utilization of the conference
method to deal with specific inter-
national questions. such as economic
adjustment, reduction of ornaments,
protection of minorities.
5. Expansion of the cooperation
of the United States with the League
of Nations.
6. Increasing appropriations for
the Department OF State to meet
its growing responsibilities in the
maintenance of peace.
7. "A national defense policy cor
related with a constructive foreign
policy for peace which recognizes
both the economic wastefulness of
armaments and the necessity for in
ternal economic stability
The recommendations of the COM
mission on national defense that
the President appoint a permanent
advisory committee on national de-
fense was referred to the National
Committee.
Tea at White House.
Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt will
receive the 700 delegates at tea In
the White House this afternoon.
The conference will close tonight
after a summary by Hans Kohn,
professor of modern European his
tory at Smith College, of "The
Choice Before U.s."
Vera Micheles Dean, research di-
rector of the Foreign Policy Associa-
ton. told the delegates last night
that the Munich accord forms a
watershed between historical
periods"
In the perspective of Munich" {"
she said, "it becomes increasingly
clear that the World War marked
only pause in the development Of
political and economic change which
We're molding the Goth century"
Naziism and Communism, she said,
are not disconnected phenomena
without roots in the past, but repre-
sent a revolt of the dispossessed
classes against the industrial cap
italism and feudalism of the 18th
century.
Samuel Guy Inman, executive Sec
retary of the Committee on Cooper
alton in Latin America, discussing
the Lima conference, said the Pan
American Union must free itself
from three limitations.