Evening star., 1940-05-14
Text of Hull Address
Sees Anarchy Threatening U. S. as Well
As Other Nations in Present Conflict

portance that every citizen vis-
ualize clearly the cardinal TEA
lures of international law and Of
order based ON law, IS well Is the
conditions which would prevail
II they were destroyed.
Order under law in the rela-
tions between and among nations
requires scrupulous respect for
the pledged word. It requires
fulillment Of obligations. With
out these, the whole fabric Of mu-
tual trust and, in fact. Of civilized
existence must crash to the
grounds Without confidence that
q promise made by Q nation will
be kept and that an obligation
assumed by q nation viii be hon.
ored. international relationships
become reduced to the level Of
the jungle.
All Nations Must Feel
Secure from Subjugation.
Order under law in internation-
al relations requires that nations
respect each others independ-
ence. Unless all nations-large
and small-can consider them
selves secure in this respect, they
must continually live in fear of
being confronted with the tragic
alternatives of abject submission
or armed resistance. National ef-
fort must then either be half
hearted in the shadow of ever
present dread or be increasingly
diverted from activities for the
advancement of national welfare
to the intensive creation of means
Of defense.
Order under law in interna-
tional relations requires that
disputes among nations must be
settled by none but pacific means,
and that treaties and agreements.
once entered into. be revised by
none but methods of peaceful
adjustment. It is necessary, as
all right-thinking people agree,
to the peace and tranquility of
the body polite of a well-ordered
state that individuals shall re-
frain from self-help and the
employment Of force and shall
settle their differences by peace
full methods and. when necessary,
by the judicial process. It is no
less necessary, If we are to have
an orderly international society
"a society capable of rendering
the greatest amount of good to
the greatest number Of people
that members Of the family Of
nations shall be governed by sim
liar processes for the settlement
Of their differences.
For centuries, efforts have been
made to Danish the use of armed
force as an instrument for set
Ting disputes and revising treat
les and agreements. Extensive
machinery of judicial procedure,
of conciliation, of mediation and
OF arbitration has been built up
for this purpose. The efficacy of
this machinery has been amply
demonstrated. It would suffice,
If all nations would but resolve
to have full recourse to it. Only
by sincere determination to per-
feet 1t and to use it can mankind
hope to relegate the international
anarchy Of war to the limbo Of
things forgotten.
Economic Warfare Leads
To Social Unrest and Battles.
Finally, If order under law is
to be stable and effective, it Is
essential that trade and other
economic relationships among
nations be conducted on the
principles of fair dealing and
equal treatment. Disregard of
these principles leads to economic
warfare, which undermines the
foundations of peaceful and
orderly international relations.
Search for national economic
self sufflciency, discriminatory
trade arrangements, failure to
practice the doctrine of equality
of commercial treatment are