Washington, Apr. 14
Speaking before the thirty-ninth Continental Congress of the Bar today, President Hoover pleaded for} more support for the World Court, and urged the necessity for provi ing some method to mobilize publi opinion against violations of the Kellogg Anti-War Pact. The Sinc-Russian difficulties were introduced in proof of the latter point.
He said that he did not doubt that the United States would become a member of the court, which was the only practical organ of its sort.
The American people, in. Mr. Hoover's view, had a spiritual and moral duty to participate i ing pence,@although this did not mean commitments to use force for} the limitation of independence.
President Hoover said that the question of the proposed United States reservations upon full adference to the World Court was a disputed one, for which reason he did not intend to discuss it in the course of his speech.
'The President pointed out that! every President and Secretary of State whp had been alive since the inception of the World Court had urged American adherence to i Referring to the London Naval Limitation' Conference, the President declared that the success of this meeting represented a step toward the prevention of war.
citing difficulties in applying the Kellogg Pact to settlement of the recent Sino-Russian controversy, President Hoover said that the need had been demonstrated for "some method of mobilization of public againat violation of the "Kellogg The President declared that the failure of the Geneva Conference in 1927 had renewed more dangerous, ent. competition, while the success of the London Conference had reduced British, Japanese and 'American standards of naval armaments about 25 per cent. below those of 1927, 'But' most important of all," he went on, "it has rendered us able finally to turn the tide of the con-lantly increasing naval armaments and to end the position of suspicious Mi will generated by constant]
in naval construction."—
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