United States Must Stop Fighting 'Religious Wars,' Dennis Asserts

Lawrence Dennis '19, the writer who supported the Fascist cause during World War II, last night called for the United States to end the series of "religious wars" it has fought during the last hundred years.

Speaking at a Conservative Club lecture on "A Foreign Policy for America," Dennis said that "If the U.S. had to fight Hitler in World War II, by the same theory we will have to fight the Communist world and large sectors of the colored world that are on the war-path against our allies."

The expansion ideology which has been in vogue in the United States for over a century, Dennis argued, has been more unjustified than the German people's eastward expansion. He said that this country never needed "Lebensraum," as the Germans did.

Dennis called his program "gradual disentanglement," rather than "isolationism." President Truman's intervention in Korea was "unjustified and unwise" in terms of foreign commitments, the former Foreign Service official stated.

The United States should not get involved in the conflicts of Cyprus and North Africa, he continued, since they are a result of "imperialistic and colonialistic" policies by England and France.

Dennis objected to "one-worldism" on the grounds that its proponents fail to consider its implications. "How would small businessmen and labor leaders like an influx of the colored world and of cheap labor?" he stated.

Giving money to foreign countries, Dennis said, should not be suspended in cases where the United States can get something for it in return.