"We should be prepared to aid, in every practicable way, in the resort to such peaceful means of settlement, "Within the limitations of our traditional. policies," Mr, Hull went on, "and without entangling alliances or involvements, we should ce-operate sincerely and resolutely with like-minded nations working for the same goal,"
Referring to American isolationists, the Secretary of State declared:
"The deliberate renunciation by us of any participation in international affairs would make for the easier triumph. of lawlessness and brute force in war.
"In à. world growing more and more disordered and chaotic, we will be compelled to increase our armed defences on a scale that will impose a truly crushing burden on our people, "Justice and Morality"
"Even so, we would have to live in constant danger that the rising wave of international anarchy would, sooner or later, reach and batter down our walls and engulf us as well as the rest of mankind."
Mr. Hull emphasized that "in the years that-lie ahead, the chances that international anarchy and lawlessness will be replaced by order, under law, will largely depend on the sincerity and firmness with which some nations, at least, maintain their devotion to the principles of international law, testing. in turn, upon a foundation of ce-operation, justice and morality, "I can wish for our country," he concluded, "no more glorious course than to be the leader in devotion to these principles and in the service of their preservation and advancement,"
—Reuter.
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