WORLD PEACE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 66, 19 March 1938, Page 7

WORLD PEACE.

U.S. FOREIGN POLICY. Republican Criticism of Mr. Hull's Speech. SUPPORTED BY DEMOCRAT. United Press Association.—Copyright. (Received 9.30 a.m.) WASHINGTOX, March 18. While it is confidently expected that the Secretary of State, Mr. Cordell Hull, will be taken to task by the extreme isolationists in Congress for his open avowal In favour of parallel action, the first expressions of opinion were chiefly on party lines, since it is generallv agreed lie only expressed the traditional aspects of American foreign policy.

The opposition to Mr. Hull was perhaps best put by Mr. Hamilton Fish (Republican): "The speech was fdled with high-sounding generalities, but it only proves the Administration has no foreign policy and is drifting- toward super-armament and war without any programme to restore the peaceful relations of the world. The truth is that Mr. Hull is an internationalist and believes in using force and coercion to punish aggressor nations, and that is exactly what he means when he speaks of parallel action with nations whose

objectives coincide with those of America."

The Democratic viewpoint, but nevertheless a safely non-committal one, was expressed by Senator Pope: "Mr. Hull is exactly right. An isolationist policy means only world chaos. An enlightened policy of co-operation among nations is the only way to peace'."

I lie ''New ork Times," in an editorial, says: Dictatorship marches to fresh triumphs while democracy is trying to decide on what point its vital interests are affected. No one knows to-dav at what point Britain will draw tli« line of resistance against aggressive (fermany. and French opinion is divided. Tn our own case desire for peace is so compelling and the belief that peace can he found through a policy of isolation is now so widely shared that the proposal for American participation in an international effort to uphold law and order—a proposal in which the '"New York Times'' has always believed and still believes—is momentarily out of the question.