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I am going to review with you today the law with respect to the federal treaty-making power as it seemed to be two years ago when I made the California speech and then call your attention to the law as announced in April of this year by the Fujii case in California. Finally, I will try to indicate where we Americans may find ourselves in the next two or three years unless, as lawyers, we raise our voices and save our domestic law and basic rights from the encroachments and engulfments of international legislation effected through the treaty-making power.

The ink was hardly dry upon the articles of German capitulation when leaders of the labor party in England precipitated a general election and raised the banner of state socialism. There is great ferment in France and the issue there is basically socialism on the one hand and private enterprise and a free economy on the other. Both state socialism and communism are as much forms of totalitarianism as fascism or naziism. Mr. Churchill has used plain words as to the issue in England. Honesty in thought and expression requires that the issue be bluntly stated. Make no mistake about it—any form of totalitarianism means a planned economy and a welfare government administered by bureaucrats regimenting the lives of the citizenry and reducing the citizen to a pawn and a ward of government.