WORLD AFFAIRS

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 125, 31 May 1927, Page 9

WORLD AFFAIRS

IMPORTANCE OF AMERICA

PATIENT BUT POWERFUL

MUST KEEP ARMED FORCES

(United Pmm Auocution.-Copjright) (Received 31st May, 8 a.m.) WASHINGTON, 30th May. President Coolidge spoke at Arlington Cemetery during the Memorial Day observance. He outlined the programme which, would dictate the action of the tJnited States delegates at the Naval Disarmament Conference at Geneva on 20th June. President Coolidge said:— " While we wish peace everywhere, it is our desire that it should be a peace not imposed by America, but a peace established by each nation for itself. Although well aware that in the immediate past, perhaps even now, there are ta in i oCßlitieß wnere ou ; citizens would be given over to pillage n£u£ UJ d! r bUt fpr the P««w«f our MmSP" ?- rCea ' aevertheless it is the deli in?? 1*?, Ot OUr Government to ball ♦ °thM "tio". on the Dasis of force and compulsion but of under atanding Md goo^n. «v* +h«' how, eye * «"«* we wish to purcat,e tL PJ th; £ ? eaee we canaot «- cave the fact that there are still evil i°™ ca A .m the worW- We could no thL? ense wlth our miUt«y fc»ei 3 onr P°lice forces. While Wy convinced that it is altogether ?ract lca i a d poMlb j e t0 « a >, n iv a al ,covenant». to consent to abolition would be to expose ourselves first to aggression, and, finally, to delllsT\ We aM Sttffi«iently acquainted With human nature to realise that we are oftentimes the object of envy. It is to protect ourselves that we maintain natlOna i defence. We have a suf/ficient reserve of resources so we need not be hasty in. asserting our riehts me e na Cu a" tf °V° let Pati«»«e be lorn: mensurate with our power." Jf*' CooUdge asked that in Tutiin Z 11" th6re ShoUld be ft »«bSti tuhon of reason and law in place of force and compulsion. He said that the Government was attempting to proceed ,n accordance with these princommg more and more important Fweign affairs constituted a field to which and nl° eßl ary, that the Government and people should give greater attention than was now realised