Evening star., 1941-04-24
World Union Setup
Is Seen Key 10 Hope
For Americas
Universal System of
Law and Order Stressed
By Prof. Fenwiek

Only in the framework of worlt
union, universal system of law ant
order, can the United States hopl
to develop any real and effective CO.
operation among the American re-
publics, Prof. Charles G. FenWlcE
of Bryn Mawr College today TOLD
the Seventh Conference OF Teachers
of International Law and Related
Subjects.
Speaking at a conference session
devoted to inter- American organl-
cation. Prof. FenWick warned:
ut would be the graVeSt mistake
If the American people should come
to believe that they can substitute
a policy of continental solidarity
for the larger and more difficult
task of cooperating to maintain law
and order in the world at large"
The speaker said regional group
ings, such as the inter- American
community, may play an important
part in promoting interests peculiar
to the particular region, but he
added there are problems confront
ing many of the Latin American
states which cannot possibly be
solved by mere regional fedora
ton.
Important Role Is Seen.
Prof. Benjamin H. Williams, Uni
versity of Pittsburgh, in a discussion
of the economic aspects of inter-
American organization, said Pan
AmericaniSm may be expected to
play an important part in a vast
development in the Americas during
the coming years.
The fear that victorious Ger
many after the war will use its we'll
known tactics of commercial pene-
tration as means of imposing polit-
ical control upon Latin America has
likewise stimulated the work of
planning for a more closely inte-
grated economic system in the
Western Hemisphere" he told the
teachers.
"As Europe periodically devaStateS
itself" Prof. Williams asserted, the
center of civilization moves west
ward. In our hemisphere we see the
growth of trade and the increase of
wealth. During the coming decades
of the Goth century, new industries
will arise. standards of living Will be
lifted, health and education will be
emphasized and a strong resistance
will be built up against economic
i1,o tinfN from tho
lantic."
Totalitarian Doctrines Discussed.
At this mornings session of the
conference, which is being held at
the BrookingS Institution under the
auspices of the Carnegie Endow-
ment for International Peace, the
delegates heard discussions of the
three totalitarian doctrines of world
organization - national socialist,
communist and Japanese doctrines.
The driving force of Nazi-iSm is
the lust for power, Prof. Hans Nor
genthau, University of Kansas City,
told the conference.
Prof. Morgenthau said that West
ern thought on world organization
has been dominated throughout the
centuries by three main concepts ::
Humanity, law, progress.
The denial of those three main
Ideas Of Western thought character
lies the national socialistic doctrines
of world organization, the speaker
continued.
Themes Substituted.
ITO the idea of humanity. ma
tional socialism opposes the idea Of
race; to the idea of law it opposes
domination by technical rules; to
the idea of progress it opposes the
unending struggle for power"
Hitler has an idea that the new
order will be comparable to the solar
system, the sun being the national
socialist state and the planets its
dependencies, Prof. Morgenthau
said. Other nations would be vas
sal states, with Germany the mas
ter state under the philosophy, he
added.
Prof. Harold M. Vinacke. Uni
sersity of Cincinnati, asserted in
speech on "Totalitarian Japan and
International Organization" that
Japan is carrying on its imperial
istic program in the Far East un-
der the cloak of the recently-de-
veloped political philosophy which
It terms "regionalism."
Under its plan for regional or
eaniZation,' Japan would direct all
countries in Greater East Asia. in
cluding the Philippine Islands, Prof.
Vinacke asserted.
Outlines Scope.
Also included would be the Neither
land Indies, British Malaysia and
possibly Burma, and China, 1ndo-
China and Siam, he said
Peace would be maintained be-
cause Japan, as the regional au-
thority' would undertake, and would
have the power to enforce the peace
full settlement of disputes" the
speaker continued. 1T would be able
to mediate disputes even more
vigorously than it did the French
ndo-China-T dispute if the
new regionalism were effectively Or
ganiZed."
Prof. Malbone w. Graham, Uni
versity of California at Los Angeles,
told the conference that only the
future can tell whether Soviet Rus
sia will expand further by the demo-
lition of the existing forms of society
in the Near and Far East.
"Of one thing We may be sure" "
he added in a discussion of Com
munjSt doctrines. 1T is that further
expansion of Russia toward its goal
of world union of Soviet Socialist