Evening star., 1939-04-30
Far East Arms Ban
Would Be Unjust,
Pitfman Declares
Dr.. CorreI Also Speaks
At International
Law Banquet

It would be unjust and immoral"
for the United States to prohibit
the shipment Of munitions to China
or Japan at this time, Senator Key
Pittman, chairman Of the Senate
Foreign Relations Committee, last
night told the American Society of
International Law at its annual
banquet at the Carlton Hotel.
The sponsor of cash and carry"
neutrality legislation explained that
the existing neutrality law defines
munitions as the manufactured
product. And in explanation of his
stand he pointed out that IAN en-
barge on munitions would not hurt
Japan. for Japan does not import
the manufactured product"
Seated only few tables away as
the Senator spoke was Yakichiro
Suma, Counselor of the japanese
Embassy.
Senator Pitman declared it would
be totally unfair" for this country
to discriminate between foreign ma
tions in the matter of munitions
and he asserted the United States
must either embargo both manufac-
tured articles and raw materials or
place them all on the cash and
carry" list so that they would be
available to all nations who could
pay for them and take them away.
DIR. Carrel Speaks.
Another speaker at the banquet,
DR.. Alexis Carrel, noted scientist
and author, declared that as a re-
suit Of the breakdown of old con-
cepts Of international law the world
must now seek a new basis for or
der"
Asserting that while it must not
be forgotten that life loves the
strong" DR.. Carrel-the man with
whom COL Charles A. Lindbergh
collaborated in development of the
mechanical heart-declared that
'transgressors, whether individuals
or nations, are always punished.
In his opening remarks. DR..
Carrel said he was looking at inter-
national law in the same manner
as in his laboratory he looks at
bacteria or men. The rule of
science, he said, has not yet been
applied to the conduct of nations
or individuals.
William Hard, columnist and COM
mentator, also addressed the society
not as lawyer, but as the perfect
isolationist." In recalling his trav-
els had taken him to many corners
of the world, he said the more he
had seen of other countries the
more it convinced him he was for
complete isolation.
Frederic R. Coudert, vice pres
ident of the society, who presided as
toastmaster, opened the speech
making by declaring that nations
cannot live in dread of vassalage
and fear of being overwhelmed oy
force. That, he said, is why the
people of the world are ready to
make any sacrifice that may be
necessary.
The guest list for the banquet of
the American Society of Internal
tional Law follows:
Ambassador of Ecuador Ricardo
j. Alfaro, Madame Ricardo j. Al
faro, Mrs. Fannie Fern Andrews,
Right Rev. Julius w. Atwood.
Maurice j. Bame, DR.. Alfred
Bilmanis, Minister of Latvia;
Madame Alfred Bilmanis, William
Boyd Carpenter, Mrs. William Boyd
Carpenter, Minister of Ireland M.
Robert Brennan, Mrs. Robert Bren-
nan, Senor Don Julio E. Briceno,
Sonora de Briceno. Miss Josephine
j. Brown, Philip Marshall Brown,
Mrs. Philip Marshall Brown, Henry
Butler.
Louis G. Caldwell. Arthur D. Call,
Mrs. Arthur D. Call, DR.. Alexis
Carrel, Madame Alexis Carrel, Senor
Don Ricardo Castro Beeche, Min
lister of Costa Rica; Sonora de
Castro Beeche, Miss H. Emma
Clark. R. A. Clemen, Col. Wade H.
Cooper, Alexis c. Coudert, Mrs.
Alexis c. Coudert, Frederic R.
Coudert.
Gerald J. Davis, Mrs. Gerald j.,
Davis, Guy w. Davis, William C.
Dennis, H. w. Donovan, William
Gerald Downey, A. w. Dulles, Ed
ward Dumbauld.
Miss Eleanor H. Finch, Mr.. and
Mrs. George A. Finch, Wilbur S
Finch, William N. Findley.
Miss Else Gericke, Leon Wilson
Godshall, Rudolph L. Cole, Mrs.
Rudolph l.. Cole, Baron Herve de
Gruben. Counselor of the Bel
gian Embassy: Mario Guimaraes,
Nine. Mario Guimaraes.
Max Habicht, Mrs. Max Habicht,
Miss Margaret M. Hanna, William
Hard, Mrs. William Hard, Henry 3.
Hazard, John N. Hazard, Thomas