The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-10-22
cl)NNALLY BILL
IS VERY SOUND
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o,+ing not individual nations
yea .,o world community force
Wv ,.bicb the officers and men
II =, mt he under their national
1ags." ,,,oras ,,,o,,ou;
he .,;co the world not with forces
&c pJ by agreement among the
Supp s,bpr nations, but with an army
fas sr,ited and commanded by an
TeC-rr,ational world government.
r.5 me- whole conception is, it seems
1l', No impossible and undesirable.
10 mn" an international r m d
~ s were created, it would have
l0-t ho stronger than the armed
IL a@s Of any nation or combina-
1cl'' If nations. Otherwise it could
~" ,,o1ice them. Does any one
~. opsIv think that the British,
s russians. the Chinese, h e
,ls oricans or any of our other
w. wv. will consider disarming
S, .,r and then intrusting to
NV International army, composed
q" i would have to be of profess
~ mercenaries, the power to
s-g them? The proposal is so
considered that to continue to
Las GO # can only obstruct and con-
E.eo practical measures to COM
t9o and concert national forces
"a maintain peace.
This proposal for an internation-
amy is the substantial reason
' "a so many feel they must, as
. %g' Connally resolution does, re-
s ,,s the principle that the new
International authority is to be
,oronosed of free and sovereign
We should not hesitate, I be-
reve to reaffirm this principle.
What we should insist upon is that
IN all discussions of it sovereignty
no defined in the historic Ameri-
s5n which is also the civilized
rnropean. sense of the word. The
tmnders of the Republic, who es-
+8blished the sovereignty of the
United States in the period from
Ills to 1889, were m n deeply
,vmded in the civilized tradition
1.-The Western World. AS long as
u adhere to their conception of
rereignty we shall stand on
s.i ground.
hey never imagined for mo-
rsnt. and they rejected utterly,
he notion, which Hitler has re-
vved that a sovereign state is a
law unto itself, and that it has
Tie right to do whatever it has
the power to do. The rights of
sovereign, or as they called it, of
free and independent state, were
limited by 1.-The laws of nature
and of natures God" and the
rights of a people had to be ex-
ercised with "a decent respect to
the opinions Of mankind"
The laws of nature and Of
natures God were, as they under
stood them. the underlying prin-
ciples which reasonable men dis
cerned and conscientious men ac-
knowledged in the body of the COM
mon law, in the customs and prec-
edents Of the law of nations, in
documents like the Bill of Rights.
Nations and individual men were
free under these universal laws,
and the Constitution, all statutes,
all policy were, as they saw it,
valid and binding only if conform
ing TO this universal tradition Of
civilized law
This is the conception of SOW
ereignty which Hitler and his con-
federates have challenged, and we
must not fall into the grave error
Of initiating him.
NOR must we continue to ignore
the plain words Of the men who,
because they established American
sovereignty are the highest au-
snoflty on what sovereignty means.
linus II Is often said by some who
seem never to have read the Dec
lsfatlon Of Independence to it's
conclusion that to contract alli-
aAces-a plain honest word which
Inc squeamish find too blunt-is 10
surrender our sovereignty. The fact
Is mat the leaders of the Ameri-
can revolution declared that the
loll power to levy war, conclude
peace contract alliances" is the
essential mark of sovereign
Their real view, which thew
n'aoe as plain as words can make
!. was that sovereign state is
, gUulla IN all its actions by a higher
law man the passing whims and
H ~ Of its government; but if
.s purpose is lawful in the full
. meaning of the word \
NO, n IN order to achieve it's pur-