Evening star., 1941-04-04
Navy Must Police
World, Ball Tells
Building Congress
Change to Policy Of
Imperialism Forecast
For Banquet Guests

Asserting that the United States
IS now at war with the axis powers
in everything but the military sense,
Senator Ball, Republican, of Mime
sofa told representatives of WASH
ington's building industry and gov
ernInent officials last night that
after this war is over it will be the
job Of the United States Navy, to-
gether with Britain and other allies,
to keep peace by policing the world.
Senator Ball, addressing TOO men,
bers and guests of the Washington
Building Congress at their annual
banquet at the Mayf1oWer Hotel
said we have been fighting the axis
in one way or another for two years.
Whether We can avoid fighting in
military sense, he continued, will be
settled in the next few weeks, when
we face the issue of conveying sup
plies to Great Britain. He said the
country would not sit idly by and
permit munitions for Britain to pile
up on docks here or to be sent to
the bottom of the Atlantic by Nazi
submarines and dive bombers."
Sees Isolation Zone.
Declaring that the United States
can never afford again to pursue a
policy Of isolation, the Senator said
after the war this country sis going
to have to adopt more or less i'm
perialistic foreign policy. We're not
going to try to exploit colonies as the
imperialistic nations of the past did,
but We are going to have OCCASION
ally to take cognizance of some
would-be Hitler as he rises and pin
his ears back before he gains such
stature as to threaten world peace.
That may mean that our Navy will
be engaged in minor hostilities every
so often. But it seems to me, look
ing at this world realistically, that it
would be much better in the long
run for us to fight an occasional
minor engagement than it would be
to 60 through the terrific effort and
expenditure of a real World War
every 20 years"
Senator Ball added that ITS 60
ing to be a tough job to sell the
kind of foreign policy 1 envisage
after this war to the American
people" This will be true, he said,
because after the war, whether we
enter it in a military sense or not,
there will be terrific reaction and
probably major economic depres-
sion
"And when that reaction comes"
he continued, there will be plenty
of politicians ready and willing to
tell the people that the present
policy was all mistake and that we
should go back to isolation"
Prominent Guests Attend.
Senator Ball was the feature
speaker at the banquet. Claude W.
Owen, chairman Of the Congress
Dinner Committee, was POSTMASTER.
Other prominent guests were: Sena-
tor Gurney, Republican, of South
Dakota: Maj. Gen. E. B. Gregory,
quartermaster general of the Army:
Col. David McCoach and j. Russell
Young, District Commissioners: Ad-
miral Ben Moreell, chief, Bureau of
Yards and Docks, U. S. N; Brig.
Gen. Albert L. Cox, commander of
the District National Guard; Brig.
Gen. Brehon Somerveu, chief of
construction, Office Of Quarter
master General; Abner H. Ferguson,
Federal Housing Administrator;
David Lynn, architect of the Capt.
tol; Commissioner Robert E. Freer,
Federal Trade Commission; James
E. Collif1ower, president of the
Washington Board of Trade: F.
Stuart Fitzpatrick of the United
States Chamber of Commerce, and
Proctor L. Dougherty, former Dis
trict Commissioner.
The guest list included: