NO PARITY FOR PEACE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 13, 16 January 1936, Page 5

NO PARITY FOR PEACE

• Of course »he United States takes no active part in peace efforts at Geneva, says the Christian Science Monitor. An outbreak of war that may engulf Eurlope is no concern of America. To think I otherwise would be to become tue dupes of those villains, the “international bankers.’’ Those who imagine |for a minute that the United States ?s la niember, the most important member of the world community, with responsibilities that bear some relation to her importance are being “tricked by Europe” to embark on another of its wars. ' Everyone—or at least every one of the f isolationist* - knows that America is unentangled.' a herm’t living in a • complete shell of neutrality. ’ But some things seem to work ,’hrough that shell. There is a little item of trade in all the war materials i not actually called ‘‘implements of ;war.” There is a small matter of j America's Italian population having be I come the largest of its foreign-born i tractions. And for some strange rea- : son the newspapers. en j n f} ie p ar I 'Vest, are putting war and peace news ahead of all but the more sordid and spectacular gang murders. I Among other bits of ‘ ‘ foreign * * news is that about a naval conference in Lon- | don in December. Of course the United , States never sends a delegate to League of Nations sessions, but naval talks are something else. This one is all set for a new boost in naval armaments. Britain finds she must have a bigger naw. not for herself, but “ in the interests lof world peace.” She feels she w the chief military agent of the League of Nations. It is true that if the League really had American support or if it should succee 1 with present police action against Italy this obligation un Britain would not be so compelling. But until collective action becomes more effective Britain says she must have more ships. Of course, what other countries do is nn concern of the United States, but doubtless the Navy Department will consider that it is necessary to maintain parity—parity in war equipment if not in peace efforts.