Evening star., 1942-04-26
Governmeni-0w
International Firms
Suggested by BiddIe
World Corporations
Post-Wor Need, He
Tells Lowyers

international business corpora
tons might be formed with the
stock owned by Governments during
the postwar readtustment period.
Attorney General Biddie suggested
yesterday before joint meeting OF
the Section OF International and
Comparative Law OF the American
Bar Association and the American
Society Of International law. He
spoke at luncheon at the Carlton
Hotel.
Mr.. Biddle was one OF q panel
Of speakers who discussed postwar
reconstruction in the fields of in
ternational law and the place OF
the lawyer In the program.
The Attorney General said con-
gained from such domestic Govern
ment corporations as the Recon-
struction Finance Corp. and the
Tennessee Valley Authority. II re-
mains for the legal profession, he
continued, TO study the possibilities
OF similar organizations on a world
basis.
New Governmental Economy.
OF our domestic problems after
the war, Mr.. Biddle said that
thought must be given to the ex-
tent to which war controls must
20 into the postwar period"
We are nov, he said, in "a non-
competitive war economy" which is
becoming a completely integrated,
Government controlled economy
and which cannot be abandoned in
stantly when peace comes.
Pointing out that one of the main
problems after the war will be what
to do with the war machinery, Mr..
Biddle said he is convinced the
United States will never return 10
isolationism. that 1t will be a mat
ter OF creating the type OF intelh-
gence and the type of mind to meet
an integrated world.
we must pay particular attention
W bAAC pc3Sl4Ol1SA1ai AGaNbhpii bA tt1t
public to the kind of institution we
will have TO put up to meet the sit
uation," he said. The lawyers part
In this viii be to think of econo-
mics In terms of the world and not
Of a continent"
Other speakers at the session were
Philip G. Jessup, professor of in
ternational law at Columbia Uni
versity, and Evan E. Young, vice
president of Pan American Airways.
The meeting WAS presided over by
Frederic r. Coudert. honorary vice
president. who earlier In the day
had been elected to succeed secre-
tary of State Hull as president of
the American Society of Interna-
tional Law.
Isolationism Doomed.
MFR. Coudert said that Nazi Ger
many's code OF law will carry us
back to the animal kingdom" He
added that the primary aim of the
United States is to bring about the
salvation OF international law and
that postwar conditions will hinge
on the creation of a sanctum for in
ternational law.
International law must survive"
he said, but unless America will
accept the responsibility of pre-
serving the law, there will be no
salvation"
Mr.. jessup enlarged on the idea
that international law win be the
keynote OF postwar peace. He said
he had made survey of opinion
among leaders of the United Ma
tions and had found that all of
them were convinced that lit must
be O world order based on law"
Mr.. Young, last speaker on the
program, said America cannot pur-
sue with probity or happy results"
a policy of isolation when the war
has ended.
IT have said" he added, that, in
my opinion, whether we wish it or
not. isolationiSm for the United
States in postwar world is for
ever ended. But as it is ended for
the United States, SO also must 1t
be obsolete for every other civilized
nation. A new nationalism must be
cultivated. one that, without losing
It's love Of country and its respect
for fellow citizens. must yet leave
room for unselfish supernatural
ism embracing the community OF
nations"