Evening star., 1940-09-03
Argues for Breaking
Relations With Germany.


To the Editor Of The Star.
Maintenance by America Of diplomatic
relations with the existing German gov
ernment is repugnant to. and may be In
contravention of. the Constitution of the
United States.
Our fundamental law empowers Con-
gress to define and punish piracies and
felonies on the high seas and offenses
against the law of nations. Interna-
tional law is thus q law Of the land, and
1t would be unreasonable to suppose that
the intent Of the Constitution is to pro-
hibit Americans from engaging in wrongs
against the society of nations and ignore
such wrongs when perpetrated by
foreigners.
The Constitution in this provision
recognizes the duty Of America to world
society and expressly indicates the Ma
tons responsibility and the nature of
the action to be taken, which must be
punitive, the precise penalties to be legis-
lated in consonance with a specially
defined situation.
When lawless nations of Africa's
northern shores warred against the
maritime commerce of the world, and
European powers were subjected by
them to tribute for immunity, the United
States intervened with force and lib
Grated the Mediterranean Sea from
piracy.
The proclamation by the German gov
ernment of fictitious and unenforce-
able total blockade of the British Isles,
being no act of law, can only be an act
of piracy, and for the United States to
recognize 1t would be contrary to the
Federal Constitution and the unwritten
constitution of the civilized nations, each
of which our Government is bound by
law and interest to defend.
Such a German blockade proclamation
is a measure of Americas recession from
the right and duties of a sovereign ma
tion, for in that proclamation Germany
requires the remaining neutrals to
abandon or surrender their mercantile
rights, as such rights are resigned or
suspended in the neutrality law enacted
by the United States Congress.
Continued recognition Of the German
government, as presently constituted.
could be construed by an arbitration tri-
bunal as a conformation by America of
its acts of lawlessness, inasnuch as
maintenance of diplomatic relations
signifies that each of the parties is en-
titled, with no qualification and no limit,
to the full comfy of nations and to un-
limited protection of international law,
a right demanded for Germany while
the German government denies 1t te
any and demands respect for German
DEGREES when Germany deprives peoples
Of their freedom and nations of their
independence.
Thus with prejudice to, and in conflict
with, the Constitution are our relations
with the German regime, whose logical
object Is the ultimate creation of Ger
man universarchy. in the establishment
Of which each independent nation on
the earth would be commanded to accept
the Pax Germanica, the sort Of peace
that is endured by Germanys victims
in Europe and the ancestor of which
was Pax Romano.
BY the express constitutional sanction
the Congress possesses the right to de-
nounce the lawlessness Of the German
government and to recommend that
American recognition Of that govern
ment be ended In the interests Of inter-
national justice and civilization.
With recognition denied, the United
States would possess complete freedom
Of action to dispose Of vessels Of war 10
any enemy Of the outlawed government