Chicago, Dec, 5.
Mr, Cordell Hull, Secretary of State, in a speech ' at the annual meeting of the Farm Bureau Federation today, declared America must not be drawn into war, but even though the country remained at peace, they could not insulate themselves. from economic and other effects of a major war, Already they had begun to feel impacts from the conflict in Europe, Looking forward to the end of hostilities, Mr, Hull said in the difficult days ahead the greatest of all issues would be whether or not the world could be reconstructed along the lines of economic security end firmly established order, which would make unthinkable a' repeti+ tion of the conditions of international lawlessness and economic chaos of recent years, In resolving this issue, the weight of America's infinuence might well. prove decisive, If they abandoned their present trade policy under pressure of narrow, short-sighted attitudes on he part of some of their people, they would render infinitely more dificult the process of building an orderly, prosperous world, and inflict incalculable injury on them-
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