Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-09-09
Diplomatic Breuk
With Reich Urged
Maintenance of Relations
Held Tucit Endorsement
Of German Policies
To the Editor of The Star.

To the Editor Of The Star.
The remotist frontiers of the United
States cannot be physically defined and
Americas first line of defense is not re-
lated to any armed force; they are in the
law and comfy of nations.
BY virtue of these, an independent
/ state and its citizens possess certain uni
versal rights and duties, by the exercise
and performance of which society of
nations exists whose supreme end is a
just. and durable peace.
When this inviolable bound is invaded
by a hostile force and this array of
legal citadels Is stormed by an enemy Of
that society, no free nation can be neu-
trail except by compulsion from the out
law government, or by consenting to be
such governments companion at arms.
The present world conflict was not in
its inception limited, or intended to be
limited, by the aggressor nation, and is
not today in its most salient feature a
war of Germany and Italy against the
British Empire: it is in its most profound
aspect war against the law, comfy
and society of nations.
A hypothetical defeat of England
suggests too forlorn a vision to be en-
dured. Germany's word would be the
law of nations, and the comfy of ma
tons would be Germany's pleasure The
only nation that could defeat such a
Germany would be the United States;
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would limit Americas duties and rights
to the Americas, and If they governed
the land in such situation they would
be compelled, in consonance with their
queer and slavish theology, to accept
whatever position in the earth Germany
might assign to America, and respect as
law the German fats concerning the
commerce and economy and governance
of the remainder of the world, which
would make this hemisphere tributary
to Germany, and a dependency of Ger
many in fact while not in name. The
meditated acquisitions of conqueror
admit of no horizons and of no limita-
tons excepting those imposed by an
enemy and by nature.
The menace of the German govern
ment, as presently constituted, to Amer
lea and the world is not imaginary; in a
Europe controlled by Germany, that ma
ton would be in permanent possession
Of the Channel coast from Calais to the
North Sea; it would, by annexation Of
the Orkney and neighboring isles, domi-
nate England, and by commanding the
resources of the continent would be as
conSiderate of the rights of nations and
Of man as were Genghis Khan and Ma
homet, and it is as amicably disposed
to the United States was the uncivi-
nzed Mongol to his world.
The conquered nations OF Europe,
compulsorily laboring for the modern
Assyrian, require a light, and the free
nations of the earth an inspiration, and
these the United States can provide by
ceasing to recognize the outlaw.
The maintenance of diplomatic rela-
tons with that government constitutes
a tacit acquiescence in its lawless acts
and implies a recognition of their legal
ity; that is, of the supreme right of ar
bitrary force to disrupt the society of
nations to treat as sophistry the laws
and comfy of that society, to suppress
independent states and annex their ter
ritories. and, If it be possessed of the
power, to establish world hegemony.
Russia is presently preoccupied with
bargaining, was seldom interested in any
international duty, while often practic-
ing the right of conquest, so that the
Soviet government probably will not
oppose Germany If Russias aspirations
in desired regions are not thwarted
Only the British commonwealth of ma
tons Is bfeasting the international Jug
gernaut that Frustrated Europe and
whose operator, desiring the collabora-
ton of England in Asia and in the Pa
cific, frequently proposes a sort of peace
that must in its nature spell nearly as
real a danger to the United States as
would the defeat of England and the
dissolution Of the British Empire.
The situation is such that no nation
can actually be neutral, for conditions
make any that is not against Germany
for Germany.
Our Government, while doing the most
the law allows to assist materially the
British interest, which comedies with
the worlds, lessons the moral force OF
its friendly acts and sacrifices the in
terests of the nations in their law while
it continues to maintain diplomatic
relations with the enemy of those inter-
ests and of that law. The troubled
nations would hear our voice in their
wilderness. EDWARD CONN.
September 6.