Evening star., 1939-12-29
Political Scientists
Hear Attack on j. ).
Foreign Policy
Neutrality Act Abondons
Our Rights; Designed to
Aid Allies, ENEMY Says

The American POlltlcal Science
Association was told today that the
present international policy of the
United States lis a retreat from in
ternational law
Brooks ENEMY. director of the
Foreign Affairs Council in Cleve-
land, speaking at the annual meet
ing of the association at the Ward
man Park Hotel, said that, with
the single exception of the repeal Of
the arms embargo, practically every
other major feature of the Neutral
ity Act denotes an abandonment OF
traditional rights
Rather than a neutrality act, ''
Mr.. ENEMY stated, lit should better
be termed an ast for the aiding Of
Great Britain and France without
risk of involvement in war"
The speaker earlier had declared
that the power position of the
United States consisted Of half the
worlds industrial capacity for the
manufacture of the products both
of peace and of war, and that
economically, strategically and po-
litically it is to our interest to re-
main aloof from the European and
Asiatic armed conflicts.
Folly" to Get Into Wars.
UNLESS it is Americas intention
to become henceforth a permanent
and dominant part of the political
system of Europe and Asia" he said
lit is sheer folly to participate in
their wars"
Warning was sounded by the
speaker, against terrible surprises
bound to present themselves, sur
prises, which he said will lead to
waves of emotional reaction in
American opinion which viii make
it all the more difficult to maintain
a position of objectivity.'
I'VE have not only to face with
realism the fact that a war of ex-
haustion is being waged in Europe,
he said, but also that a similar
struggle exists in Asia and at q
time when the British Navy is nc
longer in position to protect the
Asiatic interests of the West.
Reason "a Duty"
Surely our duty as we'll as oul
national interest lies in the preser.
vation of our power and reason ir
world gone mad to the end that
we may perform effectively our most
important future role which lie ir
the period of reconstruction"
Mr.. Emeny's address provoked
considerable discussion from thu
floor. One speaker disagreeing with
his position charged that under Mr.
Emeny's plan the United States woult
not be in strong position to par.
ticipate in the reconstruction o1
Europe after the war.
The State Department was repre-.
sented at the section on interna-
tional affairs by Harley A. Notter o1
the Division of American Republics
who appeared in place of DR.. Ben M
Cherrington. head of the Division
of Cultural Relations, who had beer
scheduled but is out of the city.
Isolation policies of the United
States were stressed by DR.. Albert
K. Weinberg, of Johns Hopkins
University.
1,5OO Attend.
AS the 35th annual meeting O.
the association swung into anothei
full days program of 13 differen
sessions the hotel was well f1llee
with activities of $500 registered
delegates, the largest number evel
to attend a meeting Of the associa'
ton. DR.. Ernest S. Griffith of Amer.
ican University, who is chairman O
the committee on local arrange
ments, said the attendance was Isl
per cent greater than the mex
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