New York, Apr. 5.
An urgent appeal to the countries of the world to give up the arma~ ments race was made by Mr. Cordell Hull, Secretary of State, Address. this evening on receiving the Woodrow Wilson Medal for his efforts to effect a lowering of inter national economic' barriers.
The economic activity caused by the armaments race was, he declared, fundamentally unhealthy, and sowed the seed of disaster in the form of military explosion or an ceonomie collapse.
The only way to avert this impending doom was for nations now Preparing for war to align. themselves with nations intent upon a policy of peace, in a determined concerted "effort. to rebuild. ini lon ships upon a basis of friend-lines and e9-operation, Presenting Mr. Hull with the medal, Mr. Hamilton Armstrong, president of the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, declared that totalitarian States could not afford to let trade find Its natural channels, for their object was not prosperity tin ough lade, but national power.
Great Britsin, however, was not thus constrained, and, without very many modifications of "her present system of Imperial preferences, could, probably accept a realy similar others which Mr. Ital haa negotiated. Reuter.
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