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By JOSEPH W LaBINEFor LaBINE LaBINC LaBINEFor For several thousand mIles mIlessouth milessouth milessouth south of the Rio Grande hes lies hesa liesa liesa a chain cham of nations whose po pohtIcal pohtrcal political htIcal htrcal and economic expen expert expenence expertence expenence ence is minimized mmlmlzed in the av- av average average av average - - erage United Umted States mmd mind mmdTIns mindThus mindTins TIns Thus is Latin Latm America Amenca WIth WIththe Withthe Withthe the United Umted States itself these thesenatIons thesenations thesenations natIons of the Western hem hemIsphere hem'sphere hemisphere Isphere 'sphere sphere ' of both North and andSouth andSouth andSouth South America Amenca , form what whatmen whatmen whatmen men have chosen for years to tocall tocall tocall call Pan AmericaRight America Amenca AmericaRight Right now the leaders of ofPan ofPan ofPan Pan America Amer1Ca are meeting meetmg In InLIma inLima mLima LIma , Peru for their thelr eighth eighthconference eighthconference eighthconference conference designed to solid solId- solIdrly solidify solidify - ify rly the Western hemlsphere hemisphere hemisphereinto hemlspheremto mto into a solid bloc of fnendly friendly fnendlynatIOns friendlynations friendlynations natIOns In 1933 , when last lastthey lastthey lastthey they met these men could d scuss scusst'lelr scusstheir scusstheir t'lelr tlelr their ' subject calmy sincerely srncerely and andwithout andwithout andwithout without fear This year it lt is lS differ different differeat different ent eat because the d ctator nations of ofEurope ofEurope ofEurope Europe and Asia are threatenrng threatening threatenrngLatm threateningLatin threateningLatin Latm Latin America s 5 security seCUlty seCUltyThiS securityThis securityThis ! This threat has been growing growmg With Withevery withevery withevery every month and to a large groupof groupof group | of American Amencan citizens it makes the theUn theUn theUn Un ted States Pan American pohcy policy policyas pohcyas as vo ced by President Roosevelt Rooseveltand Rooseveltand Rooseveltand and Secretary of State Cordell Hull Hullseem Hullseem Hullseem seem selfish and unreal st c These Theseare Theseare Theseare are str strong strdng ng chargesSelfsh chargesSelfsh charges chargesSelfsh9 Selfsh9 Selfsh " ' Unrealistic ? Under the Monroe Mnre { ) { ) doctrine doctrme Wash Washmgton Washington Washmgton mgton ington has promised to defend any anyLatm anyLatin anyLatin Latm Latin American country from Euro European Europeon European pean peon or Asiatic aggression and to toexercise toexercise toexercise exercise a parental interest mterest ovcr over ovcrour overour overour our younger democratic neigh neighbors neighbors neighbors bors to the south This was no more morethan morethan morethan than any smart business busrness man would wouldhave wouldhave wouldhave have advocated tor for by guarantee guaranteemg guaranteemg guaranteeing mg South America s integrity mtl"glty mtlglty " ! we weprotected weprotected weprotected protected our own commercial interests m in mterests mterests terests in m Pan America and el1ml elims el1mlnated elimsnated eliminated nated the danger of aggression frm from frmthe fromthe fromthe { ) the south Some men called this thisselfishness thisselfishness thisselfishness selfishness and dollar diplomacyPresident diplomacyPresident diplomacy diplomacyPresident President Roosevelt s policy IS ISsubstantially issubstantially issubstantially substantially the same but it 11 is lS notselfish notselfish not | selfish S nee nce the rise of Hltlelsmand Hitlerismand Hitlensm Hltlelsm Hitlerism ! 'and and ' and Fascism since smce Japan became a adommant adominant adominant dommant dominant world . orld power South America Amer Amerlca Amersea lca sea has been irfiltrated ir 1 ! filtra filtrated ted with propa propagandlsts propagandssts propagandists gandlsts gandssts Our trade with Braz 1 I for forexample forexample forexample example has dropped below that of ofGermany ofGermany ofGermany Germany The dictator dlctatr { ) nations nabons are areattemptmg areattempting areattempting attemptmg attempting to fasten an economIc economIcgrip economicgrip economicgrip grip m in the Western Hemisphere and andth andth andth th s would amost certainly certamly have a apolitical apolitical apolitical political influence mfiuence As a world worldpover worldpov worldpov pover pov er the Un ted States has a rIght rIghtand rightand rightand and obligation obllgabon to defend both bth { ) the theprmclples theprinciples theprinciples prmclples principles of democracy and lts its ltstrade itstrade itstrade trade with wlth foreign nat onsBut ensBut ons ens onsBut But there may be some truth in 9 s ' a xe xey y , r rY Y , - 5 ' kY kYf kY4t + y ykY 4t 4te 4tt f e t as 9 9ls ls d dt t ik6 ik6l ik6r l 1 ' r n nl ni ni nr l i i wY wYJ wYl wYa r- r rwY - J l a d de dF I dI e ' / - //F F / / rw / i % ' 4 Y b bt ; 5A4 5A4a > a t LL LLRIGHT RIGHT OR WRONG--One WRONG One WRONG-One ? - - of fhe the greatest sfafesmen statesmen of ofhIS ofhis hIS day , Cordell Hull Hult Hull'lOW Hultnow 'lOW lOW now ' bends Tus his efforts to tcmmng wtmmng Pan PanAmerIcan PanAmerican AmerIcan friendshIp Crltrcs Critics , fearmg fearing mroads inroads already made madeby madeby by Germany , Ifaly Italy and Jaran Japan m in the lands to our south , charge lIlr Mr Hull's Hulls ' polIcy policyis IS "unreallstlc unreallstlc "unrealistic unrealistic " " " charges that the Roosevelt Hull pol pollCY policy policy lCY icy is unrealistic unreallsbc We claim to be bedefendmg bedefending bedefending defendmg defending the democratic democrabc nabons nations nabonsof nationsof nationsof of South America yet democracy democracyhas democracyhas democracyhas has already flown fIwn { ) from several of ofthese ofthese ofthese these countries Mexico which has hasnever hasnever hasnever never been active in Pan American AmericanaffaIrs Americanaffairs Americanaffairs affaIrs lives under a communIstic communIsticdlctatorsh communisticdictatorsh communisticdictatorsh dlctatorsh dictatorsh p that has seized Amerl Ameni Amerlcan Amenican Amencan can farm and oil 011 lands A lefbst leftist lefbstreg leftistreg leftistreg reg me has recently taken posses possesslon possession possession slon sion of Chile Braz lian han Tian and Domml Domini Dommlcan Dominican Dominican can governments both exh b t dIcta dIctatOri dictatonal dictatonal tOri tonal a ] tendencies of one sort or an another another another anotherJust other otherJust Just ho v such nations can be bebanded bebanded bebanded banded into mto a Pan American union unionfor unionfor uniontor for defense of democracy is lS hard hardto hardto hardto to understand yet the resolute and andSlDcere andsincere andsincere SlDcere sincere Mr Hull is striving stnvmg for that thatvery thatvery thatvery very objective Though admittedly admittedlyIdealistic admittedlyidealistic admittedlyidealistic Idealistic he has accomplished accomplishedgreat accomplishedgreat accomplishedgreat great things thrngs with the reciprocaltrade reclproca reciprocal reciprocaltrade ] trade treaty program under .hlch hlch which . which20 20 pacts have already been sIgned sIgnedThe signedThe signedThe The Hull aim aun awn is to break down mter inter mternabona international international nabona national ] trade barriers and brmg bring brmgabout bringabout bringabout about greater stabilization of world worldcurrency worldcurrency worldcurrency worldcurrencyU currency currencyU U S Seeks Hemisphere lIemisphere Defense DefenseUnlike DefenseUnlike DefenseUnlike Unlike most conferences of lts its ltskmd itskind itskind kmd kind this year sPan s Pan Amencan American Amencanmeetmg Americanmeeting Americanmeeting meetmg meeting is lS not deal ng with general generalItles generalities generalities Itles ities and platitudes plabtudes It will settle settleamong settleamong settleamong among other things thmgs the boundary boundarydispute boundarydispute boundarydispute dispute between Peru and Ecuador In this connection the union unlon can cangloat cangloat cangloat I gloat over its ltS successful arbitration arbitrationof of the Gran Chaco dispute between betweenBolivia betweenBolivia betweenBolivia Bolivia and Paraguay settled only onlya a few weeks agoBut agoBut ago agoBut But the bulk ofinterest of interest mterest will cen center center center ter around developments followmg following followingin followmgIn In the wake of Germany s Sudeten SudetenaggressIon Sudetenaggression Sudetenaggression aggressIon and her persecution persecutwn of ofJews ofJews ofJews Jews As an upshot of this threat threatto threatto threatto to world security President Roose RooseveIt Roosevelt Rooseveil veIt velt plans to ask congress for funds fundsto fundsto , tG to throw a ring rmg of defense around aroundthe aroundthe aroundthe the ent re Western hemisphere heffilsphere an an8 $8000 8000 $8 8 ? $ 000 000 000 rearmament program programthat programthat programthat that would require five years for forcon forconsummation forconsummation con consummation summa bon He proposes that thatCentral thatCentral thatCentral Central and South American coun town towntries countries countries tries shall co operate in provldmg providing providingoperation providingoperation . operation bases for United Umted States Statesnaval Statesnaval , naval and aviation unitsHull units unitsHull Hull Stresses Diplomacy , . Mr Hull . who .ho ho leads the Amerl Ameni Amerlcan Amenican Amencan can delegation delegabon to Lima has not notcommitted notcommitted notcommitted committed himself hlmseJ ! definitely on thiS thiSrearmament thisrearmament thisrearmament rearmament program In tact fact he lS is lSnot isnot isnot not expected to mention mIlitary mIlitarypreparedness militarypreparedness militarypreparedness preparedness preferring preferrl11g instead mstead to tourge tourge tourge urge amendment of o1 the Western Westernhemisphere Westernhemisphere Westernhemisphere hemisphere consultation pact pactadopted pactadopted pactadopted adopted at the Buenos Aires peace peaceconference peaceconference peaceconference conference of 1936 Under the Hull Hullplan Hullplan Hullplan plan a permanent committee of for forelgn foreign toreign elgn eign ministers mmlsters from each Pan PanAmerican PanAmerican PanAmerican American country would be empow empowered empowered empowered ered to consult immediately lmmedlately by tele telephone telephone telephone phone telegraph or meeting meetmg at any anytune anytime anytime tune time a threat to American peace lS is lSlmml11ent isimminent isimminent isimminentThough lmml11ent imminent lmml11entThough imminentThough Though idealistic ldealistlc Mr Hull has hassuffered hassuffered hassuffered suffered enough dlsllluswnments disillusionments dlsllluswnmentsfrom disillusionmentsfrom disillusionmentsfrom from treaty breakers the past few fewyears fewyears fewyears years to know that signatures and andpledges andpledges andpledges pledges mean very little in them themselves themselves themselves selves But he does know that the theUmted theUnited theUnited Umted United States has seldom been beenforced beenforced beenforced forced to reprimand reprunand another Pan PanAmerican PanAmerican PanAmerican American nation nabon tor for violating v10latmg ltS its ltSsolemn itssolemn itssolemn solemn pledge Hence he believes believesthe believesthe believesthe the Western hemisphere hemlsphere peoples peopleshave peopleshave peopleshave have a common bond and are wl11 will wl11I11g willmg willing I11g mg to live li\e li e he \ % together peaceablyUnreahsm peaceably peaceablyUnrealism Unrealism Unreahsm AgainBut Again Agam AgainBut But this say his opponents IS ISwhere iswhere iswhere where Mr Hull uses the wrong tac tactics tactics tactics tics It is lS fine to shake hands smIle smIleand smileand smileand and make speeches about brotherly brotherlylove brotherlylove brotherlylove love but is it a sufficiently aggres aggresslve aggressave aggressive slve save policy to counteract propagan propagandlzrng propagandizing propagandizing dlzrng dizing and the economic encroach encroachments encroachments encroachments ments of d ctators7 ctators ? One of the state statedepartment statedepartment statedepartment department s chief critics crltlc critic m this re respect respectis respect spect spectis is lS Carleton Beals whose TlJe The TlJeComrng TheComing TheComing Comrng Coming Struggle tor for Latin Latm Amerl Ameni AmerlIca Ameniica Amenica Ica was recently published by J P PLlppmcott PLippincott PLippmcott Llppmcott Lippincott company of PhiladelphiaMost Philadelphia Phlladelplua PhiladelphiaMost . Most South Suth { ) American natIons natIonssays nationssays nationssays says Mr Beals believe Germany lS is lSthe isthe isthe the coming comrng world power because it ithas ithas ithas has gone to every corner of the theearth theearth theearth earth to tap markets and make alll alls alllances allsantes alhances ances antes There are today more Ger Germans Germans Germans , mans than Americans Amencans in South SouthI SouthAmerIca SouthAmerica SouthAmerica AmerIca and the Germans are aremore aremore aremore I more popular This situation sltuat10n has hasresulted hasresulted hasresulted resulted from propaganda forma formation formation formatlon tion of bunds andacbvltles andactivities and activities acbvltles of the thedreaded thedreaded thedreaded dreaded German Gestapo or secret secretpolice secretpolice secretpolice police Every day South Suth { ) American Americannations Americannations Americannations nations are deluged by world press pressreports pressreports pressreports reports emanating emanatmg from government governmentrad governmentrod governmentrad rad rod o 0 stations m in Berlin Berlm These re reports reports reports ports lose not a s ngle opportunlty opportunity opportunityto : to glorify glordy total tanan tarlan tartan states to the thed thed thed d scred t of democracies democraciesYet Yet Mr Beals proposed solution solutionis solutionlS lS is not tar far from that of Mr Hull HullThe HullThe HullThe The barrier to dictator propaganda propagandawill propagandawill propagandawill will not be American Ame1'1can Ame11can ' counter propa props propsganda propaganda propaganda ganda our counter trad\ trad troth tradd1'1ve trad \ . ( . drive d1'1ve d11ve ' nor norour norour , our sale of American mun min tions twns lions m in mi mthe inthe inthe i the names namesof name . of peace Insteid Inste"ld Insteld " he hesays hesays hesays says the barrier barner lies in m the natural naturalpatriotic naturalpatriotic naturalpatriotic patriotic res net stance of the Latin LatinAmerIcan LatinAmerican LatinAmerican AmerIcan people and governments governmentsto to cuts outs de meddling the real realbulwark realbulwark realbulwark bulwark in Lal Lat n America agamst against agamstahen againstalien againstalien ahen alien ideolog es includ mclud ng our own ownIS ownis ownis IS the people tt tI U emselvesi emselves i 0 ( ) Western Newspaper Union |
