Tre Canadian trade agreement was} presented to the country as a con-Jerete contribution by the United States to the cause of peace. What-jover the reality behind this plea." fg significant that the United States should adopt the view that it has definite duty to do what it can 0 contribute to world peace, and that the passive role of Keeping out of trouble is not regarded as suftdent. This new attitude of shouldering its responsibilities as a grea Power and doing what it can to maintain world peace has been offere# by the present administration as its contribution to the solution of East African crisis. Trade, as. Mr. Hull Temarked, cannot flourish: in. armed camps while economic causes are responsible for the feeling of in-[security which leads nations on to egressive war. America will benefit far more from peace time trade than she will from the risky and. tem Porary gains possible from trade with warring countries. Therefore the American administration within the limitations of the neutrality act. will what they can, following. their Independent "policy. to see that the efforts of the League to bring about peace in East Africa are not thwarted. 'A speedy end to hostilities—wil) benefit the world, and the United States will share in the benefits. The: Administration, have abandoned the isolationist theory both in its politico' jand Its economic aspects." They realize that they are inevitably part of the, workd and cannot dissociate themselves from world prosperity or world depression. The decline of the gelationist theory in government elt les. is" responsible "both for the economic policy and the foreign policy whick the administration Is" now pursuing.
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