Mr. Cordell Hull Announces American Action to Reduce Arms; Isolationist Policy Hit Nashville, Ten., June 4. are prepared to join other nations in moving resolutely towards bringing about an effective agreement on the limitation and progressive reduction of armaments," said Mr. Cordell Hull, Secretary of State, in an address last night before the American Bar Association.
"With the use of armed force assuming unheard of proportions and shocking the world with scarcely imaginable brutality," Mr. Hull declared, "the United States is prepared to join other nations in resuming vigorously and carrying forward the work of humanizing, by common agreement, the rules and practices of warfare."
Mr, Hull stated that it was wise and prudent for a great nation like theirs to provide adequately for national defence. A stable and durable peace, however, could only be achieved through the universal enthronement of a spirit of respect for law by the resumption of determined efforts towards international cooperation, "We should exert all the moral force of which we are capable," he continued, "towards influencing other nations to work for the same end, to employ civilized practices and to accept a pacific settlement in connection with such controversies as may arise between them.
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