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SORT 5 ig Moe -1B ie eS civ Te EE end a a a tat ane # ae Ba ete end Ne nm a ernie = te ee SER . | After the Disarmament Conference there was another Conference not wel pdvertised witn reference to perfecting péison gases. We must make 1 _ 80 thet any nation that trespasses on another is @ eriminel in the In wernational Code. The world must disarm together; not one country to leave iteelf prey to the others, put all together. Zo do this, to abolish war, you must call upon the people, not the rulers or diplo- mats but those who fight and die when war comes. Put the question ‘of Peace or war out of the heads of Diplomats and Chancellors and put it in the masses; make it 580 that no war shall be begun except in abso- lute defenee, unless ii be by vote of those who must fight or pay the taxes for the fighting. There can be no Peace until the economic pro- lem 8 are settled; until the Russian problem is settled. (If there aré any Departzent of Justice bgent¢ here he may speak. ) He mentioned that in April 1795, Washington wrote a letter to his Cabinet calling 4@ meeting to determine whether the United States Government should recognize the improvised government of the French Revolution; without one dissenting vote they favored its recognition, pot because they favored the bloody strife leading up to it, put pe- cause they recognized the French people's right to have whatever kind | of government they wanted. Some peopie in the Upited States are in- aifferent to Russian Recognition because of our little trade with Russia. Alexander Hamilton, in Washington's Cabinet aid not ask"how “much trade have we with France"? when he voted French recognition. Jefferson aia not ask whether other nations would make war or not ‘ when we recognized France. Abraham Lincoln recognized the government |