COOLIDGE APPEALS TO EUROPE

New Zealand Times, Volume LII, Issue 12181, 4 July 1925, Page 6

COOLIDGE APPEALS TO EUROPE

MUTUAL PACTS FOR SECURITY MORAL SUPPORT PROMISED By Telegraph.—Frees Asm.—Copyright Australian and NZ. Cable Association (Received July 3, 5.5 p.m.) WASHINGTON, July 3. At Cambridge, Massachusetts, in counseling the people of European nations lo enter pacta for their mutual security if they are distrustful of each other, President Calvin Ooolidge pleaded that to such covenants the moral support of the United States Government should be given, in the interests of a lasting peace. The President made this statement in a brief passage of a speech otherwise devoted to an analysis of the character and achievements of George Washington, on the occasion of the celebration of the 150th anniversary of ton's taking command of the contin ,entai army. “Washington demonstrated by arguments, and our country has demonstrated by experience, that more profress can be made by co-operation than y conflict,” said the President. “To agree quickly with your adversary always pays. The world has not outgrown and never can outgrow the absolute necessity for conformity with these general principles. I want to see America assume a leadership among the nations, in reliance upon the good faith of mankind. I do not see how civilisation can expect to make per- ■ roanent progress on any other theory. If what is saved in productive peace to-day is lost in destructive war to* morrow, the people of this earth can look forward to nothing but everlasting servitude, and there is no justification : hope. This was 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, and when such covenants have been made, let them be solemnly observed, no matter what the sacrifice.' They have settled the far more difficult problems of reparations and they are in the process of funding their debts to the United States. Why can they not agree on permanent terms of peace, arid fully reestablish, international faith agd credit? If + here be differences which cannot be adjusted at the moment, if there be conditions which cannot be foreseen, let them be resolved in the future by methods of arbitration and forms of judicial determination. “While our country should refrain from making political commitments where it does not have political interests, such covenants would always have the moral support of our Government, and could not fail to have the commendation of public opinion. Such a course would be sure to endow the participating nations with abundant material and spiritual reward. On what other basis can there be any encouragement for the disposition to attempt a financial revival in Europe? “The world has tried war with force, and has utterly failed. The only hope of success lies in peace with justice. No other principle to the teaching of Washington. No other course makes so much promise of regeneration for the world.”