Evening Star Newspaper, September 14, 1936, Page 27

- NEUTRALITY POLICY NEED OF AMERICAS Closer Understanding of U. S. and Latins Urged by Sumner Welles. [© (This is the seventh of a series ©of articles on the “New Pan- Americanism” and the coming i Pan-American Peace Congress in | Buenos Aires.) BY BRENT DOW ALLINSON. The views of Sumner Welles, As- sistant Secretary of State, on trade Testrictions and high tariffs as a cause of war and armaments, and oa the duty of an enlightened pan-Amer- dcanism to remove them, indicate a sense of economic realism and reci- procity at Washington, in the difficult approach toward national recavery through international collaboration and the opening of new roads to wider markets and increased trade and confidence, Regarded as the vehicle of culture and the surest means of creating the basis of a higher solidarity of civilized democracy, increasing international commerce and social intercourse is certainly the surest way to peace and progress both for ourselves and others. On the physical side, Mr. Welles expects continued improvement in inter-American aviation and com- munication and greater popular in- terest in completion of the pan- American highway, linking Canada Wwith the Cordilleras, for which Con- gress already has appropriated cer- tain grants in aid of bridge construc- tion in Central America. He sees, likewise, an impetus to improved steamship and railway facilities. Neutrality More Important. More important, however, than all else is the movement to unite the Americas in a common policy of ef- fective neutrality in the event of non- | American warfare, and to devise some method whereby the youth of Amer ican republics may be enabled to kno! one another better in order to hel one another master common prob- | lems and misunderstandings, througn an enlarged interchange of teachers, students and professional men and ‘women. “It is a matter of constant surprise | to me” said Mr. Welles, “to realize | how few of our own people appreciate | the riches that are to be discovered | in the history, the literature and in | the arts of our sister republics, and I believe that the reverse is also true. | Could there be anything more con- ducive to a removal of the causes of | controversy between us than an en- | hanced knowledge of our respective | cultures?” | Greater knowledge of Hispanic! American culture and increased politi- | cal understanding and confidence rest | upon mutual respect and the assump- | tion of legal equality. On this poin the Roosevelt administration has gone | further, perhaps, in the pledges of | non-aggression which it has made, and | in its recognition of equality of right[ toward Latin-America, than any of its predecessors. Bases of Co-operation. “There now exists,” said Mr. Welles, “a greater realization on the part of | the people of the United States of the value to themselves of a sure politi- eal and commercial understanding with the other republics of this hemi- sphere. There should exist an inter- American relationship based on a recognition of actual and not merely theoretical equality between the Amer- ican republics; on a complete forbear- ance from interference of any one re- public in the domestic concerns of any other; on economic co-operation, and finally on the common realization that in the world at large all of the American republics confront the same international problems, and that in| their relations with non-American powers the welfare and security of any | one of them cannot be a matter of indifference to the others.” These are ideas of the utmost| significance at this hour, on the eve| of the gathering of the inter-Ameri- dan conference. They gather in-| ereased significance and moral energy | from the spectacle of an armed and disorganized Europe, and a wolfish in- ternational anarchy beyond the seas. ‘There is more than rhetoric, therefore, in the statement of Mr. Welles that “during these past three years Pan- Americanism has become instinct with the breath of life, for there exists to- day between all of the republics of this Sitia) i i @ Sxtia Weskinths | } ? ,[ 5'k CHILDREN’S i NATIONAL PHOTOGRAPH { CONTEST “2500 in PRIZES HAVE YOUR CHILD PHOTOGRAPHED BY SATURDAY TO ENTER THE CONTEST No Appointment Required Samn{ Photo Studio—Downstairs Bookstore Contthent & new understanding and perhaps a new forbearance.” “The policy of the ‘good neighbor’ has been in great part responsible for the change which has taken place, and chiefly this is so because of the fact that it has been realized in acts and not in words alone. And all of the 21 republics have had their share in the laying of the broad and perma- nent foundations upon which there can be erected the structure of a Pan-Americanism which will conse- crate the principles not only of pes- fect liberty and equality among them, but more than that, mutual co- operation, helpfulness, and the recog- nition of each other’s point of view.” Realization of Dream Seen. It begins to look as if, after a cen- tury of sentimental oratory about the solidarity of the New World, something o o i | THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1936. real might be done to translate & noble dream into a politcal reality, which will be a menace only to dic- tatorships and the war-system. For while opening doors to jncreased com- merce and inter-communication of two enormous continents, comprising 250,000,000 more or less civilized peo- ple, & Pan-American neutrality policy would close the gates of the New World in a consolidated system of anti-war economic eribargoes, directed against all belligerents regardless of technical aggression or of ultimate Jjustification or guilt. To be effective they must become “automatic” and mandatory upon governments ac- knowledging and protected by the principles of international law. In the light of what Henry Clay once hailed as a great “league of freedom” stretching from Canada to Cape Horn, war itself, under the joint | ganized interdict of the Kellogg and the Ar- gentine anti-war pacts, has become crime, and abetting it felonious. This is the cardinal point of the new for- mulation, and of the American attack. upon war as an immoral institution and an economic infamy. Nothing is to be feared so much as public indifference and inertia, selfish hip, want of political imag- ination and of what the French call savoir-faire in approaching the his- toric opportunity which the restless condition of the Old World and the receptivity of the Latin American nations now offer to American states- manship. Nothing ought to be per- mitted to defeat this constructive in- ternational enterprise. For there can be no serious thought of American political collaboration with a disor- _—Slim Princess S'l\_houefles . Russian Tunics F.‘“;g'l Tlared Tunics ¢ ¢ * . fl:;'e:s .. .Peplums..- v‘l‘- Types -« New Dro 3 ‘o‘dS\leves 50 Nm\h‘u‘h : i 7. Fur-cloth 32‘,“.:?.‘,“‘:“. . ‘Sheer Coc::::(\l s—‘::::o:‘,‘ wid:‘:ssi\iny, dull. siges for I “;’:: to 20 Womuh SECOND FLOOR. and embittered Europe armed to the teeth, planning and executing lawless colonial conquests in the dark; aiding and abetting reactionary revolu- tions. 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