Evening star., 1939-03-03
Internal Attacks
Endanger America,
Ezekiel Warns
Cosmos Club Hears
Speakers Discuss
Foreign Policy

Mordecai Ezekiel economic ad-
wiser to Secretary of Agriculture
Wallace, warned last night that
Americas democracy is endangered
more by internal attacks than by
events abroad.
Can democracy save itself?" Mr..
Ezekiel asked, offering the question
as the problem of paramount con-
Germ to the United States.
The economist spoke during an
informal after-dinner discussion of
the present-day international situa-
ton at the Cosmos Club. The dis
cussion was arranged by Richard
Hogue's Independent Legislative
Bureau as non-partisan exchange
Of ideas by persons with some claim
to authority.
Cites Companion Dilemmas.
Without illustrating his point by
any particular reference, Mr.. Ezekiel
said that recent events have given
birth to dilemma with these two
horns:
Can the United States afford to
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tacks on its mode of government
with any hope of that democratic
mode surviving?
Can the United States attempt to
shut off internal attacks on it's mode
of government and still remain a
democracy?
Mr.. Ezekiel said that this country
has almost reached the same posi-
ton in which France and Great
Britain once found themselves.
where the political balance of power
is so finely drawn that the center
group can sway policy in a manner
calculated to benefit the center
selflshly.
There are groups here which have
an interest in re-establishing a
reactionary economic administra-
ton" he said I'VE must determine
how, in spite of internal complica-
tions, we can work cut democratic
foreign policy"
Directs Attention to Orient.
The question of what sort of for
eign policy this country should pur-
sue occupied most of the speakers.
Miss Frieda Utley, a former Far
Eastern correspondent for the Man
chester England Guardian, who
recently arrived from China, urged
that Americans devote more thought
to the Oriental political arena.
Japan, Miss Utley said, is a threat
to the whole world, but Japan's
aspirations can be halted by a union
of the United States and Great
Britain in denying their trade to
Japan.
Miss Utley decried the "extraor-
dinary obsession" with the affairs of
Europe which she finds here She
said that unhappy as the plight of
the German Jew is, the misfortune
OF the Chinese is even greater.
1--WE can stop Japan" she said,
without danger of war. But we
can't stop Germany without that
danger. The countries would have
to totalitarianize themselves to win
a war from the European totalita-
rian powers. So in the end what
have you?"
Sees Totalitarian World.
Irving Brant, author of Storm
Over the Constitution" outlined
map of the future in which the
world would be divided between Ger
many, Italy and Japan if those ma
tions' aggressions are not speedily
halted. He said Poland was the key
determiner of Germanys future.
Barnet Mover, foreign affairs
writer for the Washington Post, sug-
gested that the United States has q
few years of grace" left before war
comes abroad in which to formulate
q positive foreign policy.
Frederick C. Howe, Quaker and
a pacifist, urged that the United
States disarm and stand naked be-
fore the world" using the impon-
derable force of Its great position as
an example for other nations to
follow its lead.