AGAINST WAR

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 433, 14 May 1937, Page 7

AGAINST WAR

DEMOCRATIC NATIONS A Startling Proposal San Francisco, April 17. A,united front by .the United Sta es, Great Britain and France against dicta'orship nations was proposal by Re. presenilative Willi Ham ]/. Sirovick, Democrat of New York, in a resolution placed before the House in Washington, in one of the most startling moves recently in the United States The resolution proposed that 'the United States cancel all war debts of G-eat Britain and France, but "force” dista'orship nations to pay their obligations in full. “The next great world war, unless steps are taken to prevent I‘, will be between the nations of democracy and the nations of Fascism,” said: Mr. Sirovieh “I propose a method to p'revent that war by joining the great democratic nations of the United S'ta es, Great Britain. and France in defence of democracy and liberty.” He asserted that his plan would prevent a threatened iclash between democracy and Fascism which might engulf the United States. “When Woodrow Wilson issued his famous fourteen poin s *o the world, the German Empire dis'iitegrat-’d,” said Rep. Cirovich. “If the German people knew 400.000.0)) people in Great Britain, France and the Uni ed States are banded; 'together to resist the aggression of a cenral empire, hf. eluding .Germany, Austria and their allies, with only 12,000,000, they will end Hitler’s regime, and there will be no world war. “Great FJ’itain is the first line of defence of American democracy," Mr. Sirovich said, “because the destruction of the British Empire by autocratic forces would nuke America their next object of attack.” Curb on War. The resolution declared: “A new world war can best be prevented by demons rating that the United States’ wealth and resources are at the disposal of the great democracy, and that America would, never permit that they be overwhelmed by the militarised force of the new autocratic dictatorship. “Anglo-Saxon civilisation, which is to-day the sole guardian of true democracy. true culture and true Chris, tianity, is dependent -upon ths con. tinned existence of tiie British Era. i re” He said he would request immediate hearings' on the resolution. The Secretary of .State, Mr. Cordell Hull, has suggested to Great Britain the summoning of European powers to a new peace conference to halt the Old World’s alarming drift >o_ State before a House Appropriations ward war. This was disclosed when secret testimony by the Secretary of Sub-commi:tee was made public in Washington. Unless Europe halts its staggerin,,, arms expenditures, readjusts its finances on a mere sound basis, and opens its frontiers to a freer flow I. of trade with other parts of the world, Mr. Hull said gravely: “if a military catastrophe does' not occur within another year or so, it is almost inevitable there may be an economic catastrophe, and the one is nearly as bad in its effects on us—the United States—-as the other.” Mr. Hull made no reference to participation by the United States' in an international peace conference.