the second great fact which the present situation brings out is the.deep-seated error which has pervaded recent American thinking. I heard Theodore Roosevelt say that he put peace above everything except righted onsness, Where the two came into conflict he supported righteousness. In our recent efforts to avoid war we have reversed this principle and are irving to put peace above righteousness. We have thereby gone far toward killing the influence of our country in the progress of the world. At the same time, instead of protecting, we have endangered our own peace.
Our recent neutrality legislation attempts to impose a dead level of neutral conduct on the part of our government between right and wrong, between an aggressor and its victim, between a breaker of the law of nations and the nations who are en-cleavering to uphold the law, It won't work. Such a policy of amoral drift by such a powerful pation as our own will only set back the bands of progress, It will not save us from entanglement. It will even make entanglement more certain.
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