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Show Says Will Rogers EEVERLY HILLS Well all I tnow is just what I read in the papers. pa-pers. I been pretty busy trying to keep peace in Cuba.. I know Mr R o o s e velt dident want any armed truck with them and he was doing the right thing, but we still have a lot of that old domi n e e r i n g spirit in us. We just cant forget our size and our ol-rpnp'Hl fl.nfl WG a free country, wuy should she have a string on South. Africa?" Thats all fine, but the minute an Englishman reminds us of Cuba, or the Philippines we are up in arms and eome back at em. "Well thats different we are only in there to help them out. We get nothing out of it." And the Englishman says, yeah, and we cant make him see it our way. Aint people dumb when they wont see things your way. Thats why we have always thought Englishmen have no sense of humor hu-mor they just wont laugh at our jokes as much as we think the jokes . demand. Another thing about all this trouble trou-ble in Cufia, Bolivia, Paraguay and all those is that folks forget that a Latin American Country must have so much revolution and wars anyhow. any-how. They dont look on a revolution as being such a terrible thing like we do. They are a people that dont get much excitement and a good revolution is a sort of relaxation for em. Now take the Argentine, they had peace for a long time and finally final-ly it begin to get on their nerves and they couldent stand it any longer long-er so they just broke out. Well 1 was down there since then, and the humiliation of the thing was terrible to em. Not that they had had a revo- lution, that was really a picnic, but what they hated more than anything was that the rest of the world would class them as "Just another South American revolu 1 1 o n i a t C o u n t r y". I n other words thpv Inst face. 1 START SOMETHING.' J do kinder like to go prowling off into in-to some outlandish place with a bunch of marines and settling some-bodys some-bodys troubles for em. You see we have always figured that Cuba wae a kind of step-child and while it was big enough to earn its own living and was not living at home anymore, any-more, why we still had the right to step in and advise. You see, the child has grown up but - i havent.-We havent.-We still think in terms of Nicaragua, Nica-ragua, of Hati, of San Domingo, of Mexico, all these we have been in some sort of messes with. We meant well, but we just do love to nose about. We cant seem to bear to seeing see-ing anything going on without us at least offering advice. Advice can get you in more trou- ' pie' than a gun can. 1 just dont want somebody telling me how to run my business, 'or my country. I want to ruin it myself- without any outside aid, and thats especially true of these L-riin races. The minute there is any trouble in any Latin American Ameri-can Country, that should ba the tip right there for us to crawl in a hole - and n"bt even be allowed to poke our head out till it was all over, for as sure as we could see it we would ' either be in it or offering advice. We cant help it, its just second nature with us. We mean well, but the better bet-ter we mean the worse we get in. Let the Argentine come up and settle it. They speak the same language, lan-guage, and they are a big infleuntial country. Let Mexico advise Cuba they have no step-father treaty with em You see there is where we got in wrong, we retained a clause In our Treaty with em where we , kind of a string tied to em yet so while they got their liberty from Spain, there was still a second mort, gtge given to us which we still hold and shake over their head every once in awhile. We just sit by he hour at home and abroad and tell Xhy dont England give Ind.a her frTeom. Whats Engiand got to do wltt Canada. Australia should be (as the Chinese say) if there was some way where every once in awhile they could have them a nice little home talent revolution without with-out the rest of the World knowing it. Why it would be fine, everybody would be for it. But It hurts their credit with the rest of the world to have the news get out. A revolution kinder conies under the heading of amusement as well as a nessisity with them I all those countries and we shouldent get so excited about it We take everything every-thing too serious. The greatest contribution con-tribution to peace in the World would be an international clause "Any Nation can have a nice local revolution any time it sees fit, without with-out any outside aid or advice from America or England." S ICii MlSmskt Syduatt, Inc. |