MR. HULL’S SPEECH

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 66, 19 March 1938, Page 10

MR. HULL’S SPEECH

COMMENT IN AMERICA THE OPPOSITION MEW Received March 18, 10.5 p.m. WASHINGTON, March 17. While it is confidently expected that Mr. Hull will be taken to task by the extreme isolationists in Congress concerning his open avowal of parallel action, the first expressions of opinion were chiefly along party lines, since it is generally agreed that he only expressed the traditional aspects of American foreign policy. The opposition to Mr. Hull is perhaps best put by Representative Fish, who said: “Mr. Hull’s speech was filled with high-sounding generalities but it only proves that the Administration has no foreign policy and is drifting towards super-armament and war without any programme to restore peaceful relations in the world. The truth is that Mr. Hull is an internationalist and believes in using force and coercion to punish aggressor nations and that is exactly what he means when he speaks of parallel action with nations whose objectives coincide with America’s.” The democratic viewpoint, but nevertheless safely non-committal, was expressed by Senator Pope: “Mr. Hull is exactly right. An isolationist policy means only world chaos. An enlightened policy of co-operation between the nations is the only way towards peace.”