Evening star., 1940-06-20
Hull Lashes al Lust
For Power, Warns
j. ). on Isolation
Harvard Class Told
Country Must Gird
To Meet Emergency
BY the Associated Press.

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BY the Associated Press.
CAMBRIDGE. Mass. June 20.-
Secretary Of State Hull, lashing cut
at what he called "the massed forces
Of lust for tyrannical power" assert
ed today there could be mo more
dangerous folly" than to think that
Americas achievements could be
preserved by isolation.
Without naming any country or
individual by name, Secretary Hull
declared, in an address which con-
cluded Harvard University's 304th
year, that already nation after ma
ton has been crushed into sur
render, overrun and enslaved by
the exercise of brute force COM
bined with fraud and guile"
And" he continued, ''as the dis
NAL darkness descends upon more
and more of the earth's surface, as
its menacing shadow falls blacker
and blacker athwart our CONT
nent, the very instinct Of SELF
preservation bids us beware"
Power 70 Meet Menace.
The Secretary said this country
had "the power to meet that menace
successfully If we at this time face
the task which is before us In the
same spirit in which former genera
tions Of Americans met the crises
that confronted them In their
times ..
Il am supremely confident that
We shall not fail" he added.
At the same time Mr.. Hull de-
clared his belief that isolation from
the rest Of the world would be
folly"
Our American history has not
been achieved In isolation from the
rest of mankind" he asserted.
Given Honorary Degree.
Mr.. Hull, awarded an honorary
degree at Harvard's traditional
stately ceremonies. urged Americans
to grid themselves to face the needs
"of the crisis which Is upon u.s."
Each and every one Of US must
search his mind and his heart for
signs Of fatal weakness. Stern reah-
ties call for al the strength
Of hand, Of mind and Of spirit that
We can muster. They call for SELF
reliance, for seh-restraint, for SELF
imposed and freely accepted disci-
pline.
"A responsibility seldom equaled
In gravity and danger rests upon
each and every one Of us. Neglect
or delay In assuming 1t, willingly
and fully, would place in mortal
danger our way Of life and the sa-
cred cause Of human freedom"
In bestowing on Mr.. Hull one of
ten Of the honorary degrees award
ed, Harvard's president, James
Bryant Conant, declared: "A sea-
soned veteran Of domestic policies,
his integrity stands unchallenged; :;
. statesman striving for peaceful
trade among all nations, his noble
faith remains undaunted."
Carl Sandbury Henored.
Among the others honored were
Carl Sandbtrg, who won the Pulitser
Prize In biography for his Abraham
Lincoln: The War Years; DR.. e.
hott p. Joslin Of Boston, interna-
tionally known authority on dia-
betes, and Robert G. Sproul, presi-
dent Of the University Of California.
William Yandell Elliott, professor
Of government at Harvard, declared
Hitler and Mussolini have openly
Jumped US with the other plutocratic
demoncracies whom they have set
about to loot and destroy" and said
this Nation already is ut war with
the Fascist and Nad powers.
"They have declared and waged
the kind Of war upon u already
that has been shown to be the
inevitable prelude to open attack,
he told Harvard alumni in IN ad-
dress prepared for . commencement
day mass meeting sponsored by the
National Emergency Committee Of
the Military Training Camps Asso-
ciation.
Commanding the courageous Lead
Of those who have advocated all
possible aid to the Allies short OF
war, Mr.. Elliott said "for myself,
today more than ever, I ask, why
short Of WARP"