PEACE WITH JUSTICE.

Taranaki Daily News, 4 July 1925, Page 11

PEACE WITH JUSTICE.

■MUTUAL SECURITY PACTS AMERICA ADVISES EUROPE. MORE SUPPORT PROMISED, WAR METHODS CONDEMNED By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received July 3, 5.0 p.m. Washington, July 3. At Cambridge, Massachusetts, in counselling European nationals to enter pacts for their mutual security if they were distrustful of each other, President Coolidge pleaded that to such covenants the moral support of the United States Government should be given in the. interests of lasting peace. The president made this statement in a brief passage of a speech whielr was otherwise devoted to an analysis of the character and achievements of George Washington on the occasion of the celebration of the 150th. anniversary of Washington’s taking command of the continental army. Mr. Coolidge said: “Washington demonstrated by arguments, and our country demonstrated by experience, that more progress can be made by co-operation than by conflict. 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 permanent progress on any other theory. If what is saved in productive peace to-day be. Jost in destructive war t‘o-morrow, the people of this earth can look forward to nothing but everlasting servitude, and there is justification for the hope that 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 ef reparatiens, ■ and they , are in process 'of f unding de btls to the United States. Why can they not agree on permanent terms of peade and fully re-establish international faith and credit? If there be differences which cannot be adjusted at the moment, if there be conditions which cannot be foreseen, let them be solved in future by methods of arbitration and forms of ■ judicial detertnination. "While our' country should refrain from making political commitments where it does not have political interests, such covenants would always have the 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 lias tried War with force and- utterly failed. The Only ’ hope of success lie's in peace with justice. Noother principle conforms to the teaching of Washington. No other course makes so much promise of regeneration for the world.” GERMAN REPLY TO FRANCE. Received July 3, 8.5 p.m. Berlin, July 3. Cabinet has reached an agreement regarding the reply to France regarding the security pact.