Salt Lake Telegram | 1933-10-16 | Page 4 | When Patience Counts

WHEN COUNTS U USUALLY we are arc able to scrape up something something something some- some thing or or- other to criticise in co connection wit with our foreign or ign policy W V We can usually find someone in the state department who has fumbled fumbled fumbled fum fum- bled the ball during the course of an important play Just n now now w l we ve might take time timeout timeout timeout out to give three or four cheers f fr or r Ambassador Sumner P. P l Welles whose brief sojourn in Ha- Ha ana vaua has lIas not been lacking in excitement at any stage A little arrogance a pinch of petulance and anda n a wisecrack or two well stirred could at any anytime anytime anytime time within the p past st few weeks h have ve given n this government a painful headache As things stand Mr Welles Veles has managed a very trying situation so far in a heady manner His patience patience patience pa pa- tience and forbearance have saved us from a anasty anasty anasty nasty job in the island republic We Wc can afford to keep cool in t this is Cuban mess Should we go in there we would not only have our ur own nationals nals and their affairs to take care caro of but all foreign problems problems' as well The Platt amendment would put that in Uncle Sams Sam's s lap As soon as things become quiet down there the United States would be doing a mos most I Is s sensible thing if it started to work to convince the Cubans th that t in the thirty-five thirty years sinco since the Spanish-American Spanish war we recognize that tha they have become thoroughly p capable of self self- government and that the safeguards embodied in the Platt amendment n no longer are of advantage advantage ad ad- ad vantage t to either cither their country country- or our own Its ita nullification would make easier anc and pleasanter the task Jask of main maintaining amicable f relations not only with the republic but with wit all the Latin-American Latin countries This anc and less frequent mention of the Monroe Doctrine Doctrin would make simpler the thc maintenance of concord concord concord con con- cord in the whole western vestern world on both sides o of pf t the thc equator r. r I L a