Evening star., 1941-06-23
Urges American Intervention
In Behalf of Universal Justice,

To the Editor of The Star.
The supreme object of nation at war
Is to compel the adversary to submit in
the least possible time. The prime pur-
pose of Americas intervention in the
raging universal conflict must be the
establishment of such constitution for
the complete community of nations as
will prohibit, in the future. aggressive
war by any power or group of powers.
A just and durable peace can be as
Sured only by concert of the United
States and the British commonwealth
of nations. whose devotion to the most
enlightened concepts Of the rights and
duties of men and of nations cannot be
impeached.
None can dispute these propositions:
Germany must be vanquished if free
England is to survive, if the European
peoples are not to be helots, and if the
menace to America is to be obliterated.
Germany can be defeated only with
Americas assistance, and the suppress
sion of the outlaw will entitle as of right,
and require as of duty, America and
England to command, as the defenders
and saviors Of the lawful nations, uni
versal rehabilitation, which must be de-
vised with respect for ideals of justice
practically expressed in an international
law containing sanctions and providing
for a congress of nations to meet
periodically.
The right to an independent existence
Is by law temporarily suspended in re-
spect of any nation that goes to war, and
the constitution to be composed for the
better observance of international rights
and duties would amend this rule and
provide for the election from the civilized
community of any state so acting, con-
trary to legitimate practice, as to en-
danger the peace, and a state thus dis
ciplined might obtain restoration only
by dismissal of the offending govern
ment and by formal apology to the uni
versal congress.
Could we imagine peace to be the Holy
City, aggressive war the enslaving As
syrians, and the victims of Germany the
aff1icted Judaeans, the analogy would
poStulate the defensive defeat of the op-
pressor, the liberation of the Judaeans by
righteous prince and an Ezra to revive
the law and rebuild the defenses of Je-
rusalem, name that signifies the altar
of God.
Or If We conceive Of the british right
Of conquest by force as a despotic regime
that commands the race to obey the
irresponsible will of arbitrary force and
thus would reduce free peoples to
bondage, the paramount want is a con-
gress of free governments and a Jeffer-
son to compose a declaration of inde-
pence for the nations which would serve
as the basis for an international con-
stitution in which the justest elements
of the existing law of nations would be
as bill of rights, and respect for that
fundamental law would be obtained by
the creation of permanent court for
the adjudication of disputes among ma
tions. Resort to war for any reason
except defense would be impermissible.
II non-predatory peoples are not to
be subordinated to the dictates of mill
tary powers, the nations must renounce
the right of conquest by force and this
can be realized by simple international
legislation in these words: Conquest by
| force is, and remains, renounced and
abolished" and the treaty denouncing
slavery suggests the mode for enforcing
the law: such traffic the nations pro-
claimed to be piracy.
With such an international constitu-