ADVICE TO THE NATIONS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 19061, 4 July 1925, Page 11

ADVICE TO THE NATIONS.

PRESIDENT OF AMERICA. REGENERATION OF WORLD. PACTS IF MISTRUST EXISTS. Bj Telegraph—Press Association— Copy no ht. (Received 5.5 p.m.) A. and N.Z. NEW YORK. July 3. In the course of a speech at Cambridge, Massachusetts, the President, Mr. Calvin Coolidge, advised the nations of Europo to' enter into pacts for their mutual security if thoy were distrustful of each other. He pleaded for the moral support of the United States Government for such covenants in the interests of lasting peace. The President made this statement in a brief passage of his speech which was otherwise devoted to an analysis of the character 'and achievements of George Washington. The occasion was the celebration of the 150 th anniversary of .the date when Washington took tho command of tho continental army. Mr. Coolidge said Washington had demonstrated by arguments and America had demonstrated by experience that more progress could be made by cooperation than by conflict. To agree quickly with one's adversary always paid. The world had not outgrown, and never could outgrow, the absolute necessity for conformity to these eternal principles. America as World Leader. " I want to see America assume a leadership among the nations in relifince upon the good faith of mankind," said the President. "I do not eeo how civilisation can expect to make permanent progress on any other theory. If what is saved in a productive peace today should be lost in a destructive war to-morrow the peoplo of this earth can look forward to nothing but everlasting servitude. There is no justification for hope.

" This is not the conception Washington had of life If the people of the Old World are mutually distrustful of each other, let them enter into mutual covenants for their mutual security. When those covenants have been made let them bo solemnly observed, no matter at what sacrifice.

" The nations of Europe have settled the far more difficult problems of reparation they are making'' progress in the matter of funding their debts to the United States. Why can they not agree on permanent terms of peaco and fully re-establish international faith and credit ? Failure of War in Past. " If there be differences which cannot be adjusted at the moment; if there be conditions which cannot be forseen; let them be resolved in future by methods of arbitration and by forms of judicial determination. " While our country should refrain from making political commitments where she does not have political interests, such covenanta would always have the moral support of our Government, and they could not fail to have the commendation of the public opinion of the world.

" Such a course would bo sure to endow the nations who took part in it with abundant material and spiritual reward. On what other basis can there be any encouragement for a disposition to attempt to bring about a financial revival in Europe. > ■ " The world has tried wan with force and has utterly failed. The only hope of success lies in peaco with justice. No otiier principle confirms the teaching of Goorge Washington; no other course gives so much promise for the regeneration of the world."