Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-07-06
Peace Of Europe
Rests With Hitler,
Says Eng|ishman
WheeIer-Bennett Says
Brituin Has Abandoned
Policy Of Drift
n the Associated Press


CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va, July 6.
John M. Wheeler Bennett, British
lecturer and author, said today the
"choice and responsibility for peace
or war lie squarely upon the shoulders
Of Adolf Hitler"
1.-The rulers of Germany" he told
the University of Virginia's Institute
their power" to abandon their policy
of Unsuitable acqusitiveness," but if
they do not their challenge will be
accepted and force will be met by
force"
Mr.. Wheeler said Great Britain
had abandoned policy "of drift"
and "once again is heading coali-
ton against the domination of Eu-
rope by one power" If Britain had
been "laggardly before" he added,
"she now excelled in speed and
zeal"
Have Been Patient.
The British have been very pa
tent, he continued, patient to the
point where the accusation of cow
ardice has been leveled at us-but
let the Fuehrer and his allies take
heed of John Dryden's warning,
Beware the wrath of a patient
man We British are not good
haters, and we have loathing of
war. But once we are stirred from
our easy-going complacency, once
we are deeply moved by a sense of
injustice, or should our instincts of
self-preservatlon be aroused, we are
capable of grim and determined &C
ton and an implacable will to fin
ish what we have begun. The pol
Icy of drift may have carried us
beyond that point at which the mere
show of force will halt an aggressor.
Only time can tell how true this is"
Industry Is Praised.
Maj. Gen. Charles M. Wesson,
chief of ordnance of the War De-
partment, said that in our past
work extending over many years we
have had the cooperation of Amer
lean industry and engineering So
cieties.
IF, through cooperation and CO.
ordination, we can still further en-
nance this close association, we will
have added to considerable degree
to national safety" he said, in talk
on military armament preparedness.
Rear Admiral w. R. Furlong, chief
OF the Navy Departments Bureau of
Ordnance, said he had found private
industry more than willing to CO.
operate and acknowledged "a great
debt to the patriotic and arduous la
Dor of host of individuals in private
industry"
He added, however, that he saw
the advantage to government and to
labor of such legislation as the Vim
son-Trammell Act and the Walsh
Healy Act, and predicted it would be
only matter of time" until Con-
gress makes still wider application
OF laws limiting profit on Govern
ment contracts
Browder and Auhagen.
Close cooperation between the
United States and Russia and be-
tween this country and Germany
was advocated, respectively, in talks
last night by Earl Browder, general
secretary of the Communist party in
the United States, and Frederick E.
Auhagen, founder and director of the
American Fellowship forum.
America ultimately will find itself
In cooperation with the Soviet
Union to salvage peace and civiliza-
ton" Mr. Browder predicted. The
only question is whether We will
march ahead consciously to that
end or whether, like Brit
ain, we will go through the swampy
bypaths of appeasement of the Fas-
cist axis. y"
Much will depend on the outcome
of the 1910 elections, the Communist
leader said, "as to whether the
United States will pay the same
heavy tribute as Britain paid at
Munich, before the realities of ma
tional interest are frankly faced.
"If the Hoover Republicans or
Garner Democrats nominate the
next administration in Washing
ton," he added, then in all nkeli-
hood our country will repeat in all
It's gruesome details the torturous
course over which Chamberlain has
dragged Britain
No "Conf1ict' With Reich.
Mr.. Auhagen said the fact that
America sis so-called have and
Germany have not country"
should have led to lively and
mutually profitable exchange of
goods and services-an exchange
which normally provides the sound
est foundation for friendly inter-
national relations"
Referring to "the apparent clash
Of the trade interests of America
and Germany" in South America,
Mr. Auhagen said closer examina-
ton of this alleged conflict" would
show that "it is merely a case of
contrasts mistaken for conflicts.
For what has really happened in
South America" he said, "is that
Germany has been acquiring all of
those South American products
through barter deals that the United
States would not acquire by free
exchange. simply because she did
not need them
BrOwder Hits at Reich Pact Story.
In reply to query asked of both
men, Mr.. Browder said, referring
to the possibility of a German-S Soviet
agreement:
There is as much chance for me
to be elected president of the United
States Chamber of Commerce as
there is for an agreement between
the Soviets and Germany" He as
serted that most statements to the
effect the two nations might reach
an understanding had their origin
in Berlin.
Mr.. Auhagen quoted Foreign Min
lister Molokov of Russia as saying
that Russia desires closer co-opera-
ton with Germany,
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