New York, Sept, 19.
"We are determined neither te thrust ourselves into nor be drawn into armed conflicts between other nations," declared Mr, Cordell Hull, Secretary of State, speaking to-day under the auspices of the National Peace Conference, which relayed to 100,000,000 listeners, in more than sixty ' countries an international symposium on the subject of world peace broadcast by the leading statesmen of eight countries.
"But this policy," Mr. Hull said. "must be supplemented, We must make a contribution to the realization of conditions un which peace everywhere can be. maintained, or ultimately we shall have to sustain and protect.oursélves amidst am outside world ridden. by force and war."
Complete isolation, the Secretary of State continued, was impossible in this modern world, and if rule and law disappeared in the world the security of the United States would be seriously jeopardized, Economic Basis of Peace The Secretary of State condemned the false deception that ultimate peace was possible after aggression and conquest, A nation embarking on war, with the thought that lasting peace lay in complete overcoming of its enemies, would find that the future still held enemies.
Mr, Hull declared that any nation which showed no concern or the safety or activities of its nationals abroad would soon expose itself to the flouting of even elementary rights, Economic betterment, the Secretary of State concluded, offered the best hope of peace. A prosperous people would not be easily incited to strife, whereas nations which were in want and misery and came to hold life cheaply were more ready to gamble or use force.
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