Evening star., 1941-03-22
ThreefoId Threat
Pictured by Speaker
To Pi Gamma Mu
Social Science Society
Hears DR.. Bemis of Yale;
Sessions Continue

Three Nightmares must always
haunt the thoughtful student of
American diplomacy, DR.. Samuel
Flagg Bemis, professor of diplo-
matte history at Yale. told his con-
ferees at the annual Washington
meeting of the national social
science honor society, Pi Gamma
Mu, this morning at Brookings In
stitution.
DR.. Bemis listed the three night
mares:
IA united States of Europe,
especially one created by force;
2-An Asiatic Empire;
"a simultaneous two-ocean war
with only a one-ocean navy to
fight it.
The German conquest of Eu-
rope" DR.. Bemis explained, land
the precarious position of England,
together with the conquest of China
by Japan, threatens to present us
now at any moment not with one
of these Nightmares, but with all
three at the same time. All the
bulWarks of our historical security
are threatened at the same time"
Meets With Economics Academy.
Pi Gamma Mu and the Academy
of World Economics are holding
their sessions jointly. The first
meeting took place last night in Nc
Mahon Hall, Catholic University.
At the opening session, the Rt. Rev.
Mrgr. John A. Ryan, noted econo-
mist, presided.
At this mornings session, Senator
Ebert D. Thomas, of Utah, presided,
with the first paper read by David
Cushman Coyle, author and consult
ant to the United States Govern
ment. His subject was, Democracy
and the Crisis"
DR.. Francis E. Lucey, S. j., regent
of the school of law at Georgetown
University, spoke on Jurisprudence
and the Social Order"
A panel discussion followed the
talk by DR.. .Bemis of Yale. Taking
part were DR.. E. L. Fox, professor
of history at Randolph Macon Acad-
emy; DR.. Wesley M Gewehr, pro-
fessor of history at the University
of Maryland, and DR.. James Elliott
Walmsley, regional vice-chancellor
of the national social science honor
society, Pi Gamma Mu.
Traced to Denial of God.
The Rev DR.. William J. Mcdonald,
professor of philosophy at Catholic
University, opened the first session
last night with the declaration that
human totalitarianLsm in some form
becomes inevitable when men deny
the totalitarianism of God. He said:
Since man, being rational. must
have some ultimate end, and, being
religious, must have something to
worship, he has set up instead Of
God the race of the State-or, he
difies himself or his own pleasure.
"Nazi-ism, Fascism and Commu-
nism wrench out partial aspects Of
mans nature and thus sin against
man as we'll as against God"
DR.. Mcdonald described birth
control, and said that modern man
is in danger of losing his mind as
well as his soul"
Following DR.. Mcdonald, DR..
Christopher Browne Garnett, jr.,
associate professor of philosophy at
George Washington University,
read a paper which disclosed his
philosophy of life, which led into a
panel discussion with DR.. Carl S.
Joslyn, professor of sociology at
the University of Maryland, setting
the tempo. AS scientist, sup
posedly opposed to theological and
philosophical views, DR.. Joslyn
asked a simple question which
started a long discussion. The ques-
tion was this: What force in life
can prevent men from continuing
warfare on earth?"
Answers were given by DR.. Ste
phen F. McNamee, S. j., professor Of
religion at Georgetown University:
DR.. Mcdonald and DR.. Garnett.