Evening Star Newspaper, September 8, 1936, Page 6

A—6 » PEACE ALLIES SEEN IN'LATIN AMERICA U. S. Will to Prevent War- fare Can Be Strengthened by Neighbors. (This is the second of a series of articles on the “New Pan-Amer« icanism” and the coming Pan- American Peace Congress in Buenos Aires.) BY BRENT DOW ALLINSON. “It has seemed to me,” wrote Presi- dent Roosevelt in a personal letter addressed January 30 last, to the 20 other American Presidents, “that the American Governments might * * * view favorably the suggestion that an extraordinary inter-American confer- ence be summoned, to assemble at an early date at Buenos Aires * * * to determine how the maintenance of peace among the American republics may best be safeguarded—whether, perhaps, through the prompt ratifica- tion of all of the inter-American peace instruments already negotiated; whether through the amendment of existing peace instruments in such manner as experience has demon- strated to be most necessary; or per- haps through the creation by common accord of new instruments of peace additional to those already formulated. “These steps,” he added tactfully, “would advance the cause .of world peace, inasmuch as the agreements which might be reached would sup- plement and reinforce the efforts of the League of Nations, and of all other existing or future peace agencies in seeking to prevent war.” Idea Discussed by Welles. Such was the Americen proposal for a continental conference destined to mark a turning point in post-war American foreign policy, and of un- usual importance, because of the alarming course of events abroad and the prolongation of unemployment and economic depression at home. There 1s reason to believe that the germ-idea of the conference had been discussed by Mr. Sumner Welles, As- sistant Secretary of State, with vari- ous Latin American diplomats, more than a year ago, shortly after Mr. ‘Welles' return from Cubs, where he assisted in the liquidation of the Ma- chado regime. This was before the outbreak of the Italo-Ethiopian war, | : and perhaps before the termination of that other tragedy in the Chaco Boreal, between Bolivia and Para- guay, in 1934. President Roosevelt specifically re- ferred to that conflict and its termina- tion in his letter proposing the Pan- American Conference. He said: “I cherisn the sincere conviction that the moment has now arrived when the American republics, through their representatives seated at a com- mon council table, should seise this favorable opportunity to consider their Joint responsibility, and their com- mon need of rendering less likely in the future the outbreak, or the con- tinuation, of hostilities between them, and, by so doing, serve in an eminently practical manner the cause of per- manent peace on this Western Con- tinent. If the tragedy of the Chaco can be considered as having served any useful end, I believe such end will lie in our joint willingness to profit from the experience learned, and to exert our common endeavors in guarding against the repetition of such American disasters.” Thus, although the President’s let- MV NEIGHBORS ALL RAVE ABOUT SPRY CAKES AND PASTRY ! DOESN'T THIS PIE LOOK MARVELOUS 2 ter appeared to stress more diplo- matic machinery and the ratification - frieven and n‘ru;ltr':- vestigation, conciliation - tion of inter-American controversies, 1t is clear to every close student of the subject that the essence of the mat- ter is collaborative Pan-American policy, rather than machinery; aud that the co-operative control of the private international munitions traffic, as well as the limitation of govern- mental arms and loans, enters the picture, as & part of the new conception of effective neutrality against war. It is equally clear to the well-in- formed that, although not mentioned specifically in the agenda, the Hamlet of the whole play is none other than the historic Monroe Doctrine. It is on this that public attention in the Americas must now be focused, and it is to this that the President's phrases “joint responsibility” and “joint willingness to profit from ex- perience” particularly apply. The question of reconstruction of the Monroe Doctrine has become critical by reason of the altered facts and forces of the ominous interna- tional scene, now overshadowed by cloudy rumors and costly preparations for war. For it is now plain that the elaborate political scheme of the League of Nations, the principal moral compensation of the World War, as an instrument of collective security, or for the maintenance of the status quo, has been torpedoed by the Japanese militarists, by Hitler and by Mussolini. In this aggravation of international anarchy, with the advent of the long- cruising submarine and bombing air- plane isolationism has gone likewise for the United States, despite the two great oceans. The great industrial and military nations are feverishly mobilizing men and machines for war and the question which American states- NEW LOW FARES work both ways Now it costs less to visi have them visit you. more comfortable, to0o. Only 2¢ @ coaches, 3¢ @ mile in Pullmans. 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Britain, France Opposed as Allies. ‘The answer of certain American in- ternationalists is: “With Great Britain and France, of course, the world’s leading democracies.” But these for- get that although the French and British' peoples are advanced and en- lightened commonwealths, able to op- erate democratic institutions, respon- sive to popular opinion, at home, each | | i | of them {s, likewise, burdened with & great and far-flung empire conquered desire nor intend to hold alien terri- tories and populations in fee, against their will, as our recent actions in the Philippines, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Haitl, Nicaragus and the Dominican Republic testify. Americans sometimes ignore—but ought never forget—that the foreiga policies of both Britain and PFrance, more especlally the former, pre for- ever determined and embarrassed by imperial considerations and objectives in which the American people have little or no sympathy. The keystones of our enduring and historic foreign policy are neutrality and the Monroe Doctrine—two aspects of the same basic, historic determination of the American people to remain aloof from the shifting internstional intrigues and periodic tragic coliisions of the nationalist-imperialist war system In Europe and Asia. - Our own will to peace can now be strengthened and clarified by sharing its inevitable responsibilities and de- fense with those of our continental naighbors who are able and willing to share it. Curiosity Injures loyl, MEMPHIS, Tenn., September 8 (). ~—Cornelius fjckerman, 8, was curl- ous about some funny looking gadgets in & tool box. Ha picked one up and hammered it. There was an expiosion. Cornelious went to the hospital with serious burns and Iscerations on his left side. He will recover. ‘The gadget was & dynamite cap. JEWISH VETERANS ELECT ‘Washington Woman Chosen as Auxiliary Treasurer. 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