FORCE DEPLORED

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20050, 23 September 1939, Page 5

FORCE DEPLORED

NATIONAL AIMS CENSURE BY MR. HULL DISREGARD OF LAW EFFECTS IN AMERICA INSULATION NOT POSSIBLE (Eloo. Tel. Copyright—United Proii Assn.) (Reed. Sept. 23, 10.15 p.m.) NEW YORK, Sept, 22. The United States Secretary ot State, Mr. Cordell Hull, speaking at the Pan-American ceremonies of the New York World’s Fair, deplored the “state of affairs in which callous disregard to law and morality with resort to brute force and unbridled violence are methods deliberately chosen for the attainment of national aims.

“We know that our nations will be matejrially poorer and spiritually poorer in proportion as the flames of protracted war impair and destroy, in the areas directiy involved, the foundations of modern civilisation,” he said. He pointed out that the Pan-American countries had made efforts to maintain peace by the orderly processes of civilisation, but this was not enough since the United States could noFbe insulated against occurrences in the remainder of the world.

A Washington message states that Senator W. E. Borah revealed , that he has tentatively considered the formation, of a committee of notable persons like Mr. Henry Ford, Colonel Charles Lindbergh, and Mr. Herbert C. Hoover to issue propaganda to the public against the raising of the embargo provisions of the Neutrality Act. Personally, however, he believed that it would not be necessary as the “people were pretty well informed on this issue.”