LASTING PEACE.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18425, 4 July 1925, Page 13

LASTING PEACE.

PACTS TO OVERCOME DISTRUST.

MR COOLIDGE ON AMERICA'S PART. (by caulk—rnv.ss association—cor-riUGUT.) (AVSTR ALIAS AKD N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION.) (Received July 3rd. 5.5 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, Mr C'oolidge pi ended that to such covenants the moral support of tho United States Government should be given in tho interests of lasting peace. The President made this statement in a brief passage of 11 speech otherwise dcrot-erl to an analysis of tho character and achievements of George "Washington, on the occasion of the celebration of the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of "Washington's taking command of'the Continental army.

Mr Coolhigo said: ""Washington demonstrated by arguments, and our country has demonstrated by experience, that more progress can be made by cooperation than by conflict. To agrco quickly with your adversary always pays. Tho "ivorld has not outgrown, and never can outgrow, tho absolute necessity for conformity -with these general principles. I went to see America assume a leadership among nations in reliance upon the good faith of mankind. Ido not see how civilisation can expect to make permanent progress on any other theory. If what is saved in productive peaco to-day be lost in destructive wars to-morrow, tho people of this earth can look forward to nothing but everlasting servitude and there is no justification for hope. This was not tho 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 bo solemnly observed, no matter what tho sacrifice. They have settled far the more difficultproblems of reparations, and they are in, process of funding their debts to the United States. Why can they not agree on permanent terms of peace and fully re-establish international faith and credit? If there be differences which. cannot ho adjusted at the moment, if there be conditions which cannot ho foreseen, let them "bo resolved in futvro by methods of arbitration and forms of judicial determination. .

"While our country should refrain from making political commitments whero~it does not have political interest, such covenants would always have the moral support of our Government and could not fail to have the commendation of public opinion. Such a course would he sure to endow" the participating nations with abundant material and spiritual reward. On what other basis can there bo any encouragement for a disposition to attempt financial rcyival in Europe? The world had tried war with force and utterly failed. The only hope of success lies in peace with justice. No other principle conforms to the teaching of Washington; no other course makes so much promise of regeneration for the world."