EUROPE’S DICTATORS

Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20775, 8 April 1939, Page 9

EUROPE’S DICTATORS

THREATEN WORLD ORDER

OUTSPOKEN SENATOR AMERICA URGED TO ACT (United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright) WASHINGTON, April 5 A former Secretary of State. Mr H. L. Stimson, testifying before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee urged the United States to use its economic resources to halt the agressions of

dictator nations. Mr Stimson opened the hearings on the proposed revision of the neutrality laws 11° urged

that the President be given broader discretion declaring, ‘"Caucasian civilisation is threatened by the gravest danger with which it has been confronted for four centuries. Today three of the seven most powerful nations in the world have rejected its code of behaviour with open scorn and contempt, and have adopted as their most conspicious foreign policy a system of aggressive action against their neighbours. Under the name of unilateral action they have proceeded to tear up all the net of promises,

treaties, and codes which have been adopted under the old system of i , mutual respect and which stood in the way of their own aggrandisement.” Mr Stimson also advocated the abandonment of the principle of isolation, asserting that the European axis moved much too rapidly and the world had become far too small and interconnected. He further urged the United States “carefully, moderately. but firmly and intelligently to help to protect the world, which includes ourselves from its imminent continuing danger.” Mr Stimson concluded by saying, ‘‘The fact that we are known to be ready to do so will not only tend to slow down the axis, but at the same time will encourage their intended victims not to make surrenders which will ultimately endanger us.”