Hindmarsh Speaks Before Meeting of Economic Club

Speaking before the Economic Club in Adams House last night, Albert E. Hindmarsh, instructor in Government, declared that it was folly to envisage plans for the enforcement of international obligations by economic pressure.

"When one considers the weaknesses of human nature and the realities of international life," said Dean Hindmarsh, "most of the plans for international economic sanctions appear to be extraordinarily potent means for universalizing war and conflict. The use of embargo measures by an allegedly neutral state against one of two opposing belligerents constitutes a breach of neutrality and renders the neutral liable.

"The employment of economic pressure of curb conflict between nations presupposes prior agreement by all states concerning new rules of neutrality. A single country, even then, is in no position to set itself up as a judge of the action of another nation.'