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...answer the charge made day before by California's Hiram Johnson, a fellow committeeman, that the U. S. "had no foreign policy." Mr. Johnson advanced the theory that the State Department's protestations of peace were at odds with the President's threat of "quarantining" aggressor nations. In his Chief's defense, Senator Pittman declared: "When the President of the U. S. first entered office he announced what I consider the fundamental foreign policy of our Government-non-interference and non-intervention in the affairs of other governments. I know of no instance...
...need to define what an aggressor nation is. We need to have a tribunal where the facts in any case may be discussed and the decision made before the world, as to whether a nation is an aggressor or not. Then the steps decided on could be taken in conjunction with other nations. . . . Our real ultimate objective must be a change in human nature...
...denounced all policies that might lead to war. But last week war had become a less academic question and the delegates were confronted with a new peace plan- ''collective security." This program, advanced by President Roosevelt in his Chicago "quarantine" speech, implies embargoes and other sanctions against aggressor nations. Shouting that government embargoes (not the same as private boycotts) were the surest road to war, the Socialists, Trotskyites, Lovestonites and peace-at-any-price pacifists rallied behind the Oxford oath. To the support of "collective security" sprang the Communists and Roosevelt liberals, who declared only "positive action...
...gestures toward England are pitiful, he said. Britain now appears to be willing to make concessions to the aggressor nations, and by the visit of Halifax to Berlin last week, have shown their indifference to the fate of the democracy across the English channel...
...phrase "military action directed against Germany" refers to Belgium's obligations under the League Covenant to support military sanctions against a state declared an aggressor. European observers opined that delay in concluding the new agreement has been caused by Berlin efforts to edge Belgium away from the League. These failed because, as a price for the Anglo-French release, Belgium had promised to stick by her League commitments...