Evening star., 1940-06-17
Virginia u. Institute
Discusses War From
Allies Viewpoint
TotuIituriun Methods
For U. S. Defense Urg.s
By Dr.. Lindsay Rogers
BY the Associated Press.


CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va, June
17.-Dr. Lindsay Rogers, professor
of public law in Columbia University
and associate editor of the Political
Science Quarterly, said today the
non -totalitarian states "have con-
tinued to think the guns they need
and the butter they will not subcr-
dinate can be procured without
abandoning laissez-faire and resort
ing to totalitarian Methods
Although hating the methods. he
told the University of Virginia In
stitute Of Public Affairs, I'VE should
nevertheless admit their necessity
and not delay using them. Every
day of continued prating about the
blessings of free enterprise and eco
nomic liberty-and I agree that the
blessings are genuine-is a day lost
in race that may be race against
time"
This war, he said, was more than
war" and in its present phase was
an European manifestation "of a
ferment that will be worldwide"
From Allies Viewpoint.
Oliver Benson, teacher of gov
ernment in the University of Okla
homa, columnist and radio COM
mentator, said in another institute
address that if Britain should lose
to Hitler, the United States inevi-
tably must fight the same battle
again.
AN American victory would
probably restore. the British Empire
on our terms" he said, an outcome
that would impress us with the
impossibility of the isolation we
have vainly sought since 1919 and
lead us to more active participation
in the new world order"
This mornings discussion of the
war from the viewpoint of the Allies,
France and England, was the first
OF several sessions to be devoted to
the European conflict.
John w. Wheeler-B Bennett. deputy
chairman of the Information Com
mittee of the British Royal Institute
of International Affairs; Robert
Valeur. director of the French News
Service; Count Roman Michalowski,
former Polish Military Attache in
London. and Dr. Robert K. Gooch,
professor of political science in the
University of Virginia and author
Of works on English and French
government, took part in the panel
discussion.
Mechanized Drills Urged.
DR.. Rogers said the American
caravan already was moving. as yet
alarmed and confused" but that
Intelligent leadership can make it
confident and sure" Petty quarrels
within the Nation. he said. must be
forgotten when the safety of the
State itself is threatened.
1T would seem as if we were pre-
pairing for war in terms of the War
between the States, rather than in
terms of the last one" he said, COM
menting on published reports that
the American Army games in Aug
ust would be without airplanes and
with but few tanks and little motor
lied equipment.
Now is the time when routine is
unimportant and the best brains
in the Army should be studying the
methods and weapons that German
military machine has been using"
he asserted. He recalled an an
nouncement that the Army Staff
College in Washington and the
School of Higher Command at
Leavenworth would be abandoned
because more officers would be
needed to train new troops, prob
ably to drill them in squads right"
DR.. Rogers voiced regret that the
political maneuvering" of the COM
ing presidential contest would divert
energies and attention from "the
only thing that matters-the
strengthening of our institutions
and the defense of our way of life"
England and France did not listen
to Churchill and Reynaud until
too late, DR.. Rogers said, adding
the question "IS there nronhet in