Evening Star Newspaper, September 18, 1936, Page 25

GUATEMALA URGES AMERICAN LEAGUE President Ubico’s Proposal Also Proposes Creation of Court. (This is the eleventh of a series of articles on the New Pan- Americanism and the coming Peace Conference at Buenos Aires.) BY BRENT DOW ALLINSON. The centralized Republic of Guate- mala, in which not merely compulsory military service, but also a brief period of compulsory public service in road building and higaway construction s | required of all young males, occupies | ® rugged region of square miles south of the Mexican states of Chiapas and Onxaca. Although Guatemala is the only Central American state connected bv‘ railroad with its neighbors, the advent | of the commercial aeroplane has| brought the capitals of El Salvador | and the two Hondurases—the cities | of San Salvador, Belize and Teguei- | galpa—within ~asy reach of each other by air. This modern link has served to revive talk of a political con- solidation of the five Central Ameri- can republics, which, under the name Central American Federation, actually existed a century ago. Treaty Drafted and Signed. In March of 1934 official delega- tions sent by Costa Rica, Honduras, | Nicaragua and El Salvador met with representatives of Guatemala in the National University in Guatamala City to discuss & new series of treaties for the general welfare of Central Amer- fca. There was drawn up and signed fn April a treaty of Central Ameri- can fraternity outlawing war between the five signatory republics, reaffirm- ing the ideal of contederation, recog- nizing the principle of non-mterven- tion of one state in the internal af- fairs of others, making rnmpu\wry" pacific settlement of all international disputes, accepting the principle of | especial tariff reductions, facilitating | citizenship reciprocally, establishing | measures for the unification of edu- | cation and intellectual interchange, | making judicial acts of one munlryi valid in the others, advocating im- proved intercommunications, espe- cially the Pan-American Highway, | and providing for the opening of a “House of Central America” in each capital for promoting cultural and economic intercourse. These are precisely the ideas of the official agenda of the coming extraor- dinary conference of the American re- publics at Buenos Aires. They have already been tried, therefore, wita beneficent results on a regional scale. The Minister of Guatemala in Washington, Dr. Adrian Recinos, has been an active member of the sub- committee of Latin American diplo- matists that has prepared and re- vised the official program for the Buenos Aires conference Official and unofficial documents testify to the lively interest of the Guatemalan government and public opinion in the coming Pan-American Conference and what may be ac- complished there for the benefit of all the affiliated American peoples. | Time Propitious for Parley. The President of Guatemala, Gen.! George Ubico, in promptly accepting | President Roosevelt's invitation, con- | sidered the time propitious for a spe- | cial conference “to determine how | peace can be maintained and safe- guarded among the "American re-| publics, and to agree on the best pro- cedures in favor of it, as the supreme | aspiration of the good neighbor policy, | which your excellency and the Secre- tary of State, Mr. Hull, have pro- claimed on many and formal oc-| casions.” His letter reveals that as early as Jast December 5 & month before President Roosevelt'’s invitation was sent out, he suggested confidentially | to the United States, through his minister of foreign affairs, Dr. Klee, and the American Minister in Guatemala, Mr. Hanna, “the signing of a general treaty of solidarity and mutual co-operation among the Amer- fcan nations; deeming that among them there are common interests, the protection of which is vital to the life of the continent”; and exhorting them to exert all their efforts “to safeguard the desire for peace, justice and mutual respect, which must serve | as the basis of public law in America.” President Ubico's concrete political proposal is motivated by the declared belief that “the geographical situation of the nations of the American con- tinent has determined a special rela- tionship among them in all phases of | their political, economic and social | life; that the American international conferences have succeeded in taking definite action as to important and | far-reaching arrangements for the| preservation of peace, the furtherance | of commercial reciprocity, the pro- | gresstve development of communica- tions, daily more efficient and rapid, | to the end of increasing prosperity as | regards culture and social welfare.” Common Interest Shown. An examination of the terms pro- posed indicates that “there exists be- | tween the American republics common continental interests obligating them to maintain a solidarity as to funda- mental principles of their existence as| members of the international Ameri- ean community.” The Guatemala government proposes, therefore, that | all the American governments should now formally proclaim that “their re- lations constitute a purely American system tending toward the preserva- tion of peace, the outlawry of war, the harmonious development of their eommerce and cultural aspirations in | sll flelds—political, economic, social, scientific and artistic.” Realistically considered, what would such a joint public declaration sig-| nify, in the present condition of the world? It would, first of all, be a re- affirmation, on & co-operative and sontinental scale, of the first prin- ieiples of the Monroe doctrine of 1823, reinforced by collaboration of more than a score of affiliated republics, signify not so much s warning, or threat, that the Americas are for the Americans, as'it would be a modern dedication of the American govern- ments to the proved principles of self- government, political confederation, international co-operation, order and peace, built upon free institutions and a progressive approximation of economic justice, on an ever-enlarging and more co-operative pattern. Would Proclaim Mutual Respect. In addition to proclaiming a desire for peace, justice and mutual respect as the basis of the public law of America, President Ubico's proposal would declare that the American re- publics “consider intervention, or acts of aggression, by a foreign power against any one of them as a danger to the integrity and sovereignty of the nations of this continent; and they undertake to employ all their resources in defense of the violated right.” By the concluding articles of the proposed treaty, the co-operation therein agreed upon is declared to constitute in itself “an Association of the Republics of America, with powers sufficient to protect the strict maintenance of American rights and interests. They shall, moreover, or- ganize and create a Permanent Amer- jcan International Court of Justice, with jurisdiction for settling conflicts which may arise between the re- publics.” Thus a formal proposal for the political consolidation of the Ameri- can continents, north and south, in- volving the reconstruction of the Pan-American Union at Washington, and its realistic transformation into a political as well as cultural and eco- nomic agency of adjustment and amelioration, is now definitely before the American peoples, by the initiative of Guatemala, whether precisely stated in the official agenda or not. MOLLISON SAILS Expects to Make Return Trip in 17 Hours by Plane. LONDON, September 18 (#.—Capt. James A. Mollison, the Australian flier, sailed last night for New York after announcing that he would take off from Floyd Bennett field, Brooklyn, October 17, on a transatlantic flight to England. He said he hoped to reach his goal, Croydon Airport, near London, in 17 hours by flving in the sub-stratosphere. Further details of the flight he de- clined to disclose, saying “I'm keeping that a big secret until I reach New York.” THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, PARRAN ADDRESSES MEDICAL ALUMNI G. U. Graduates Hold All-Day Session—150 Attend Dinner Meeting. With Surg. Gen. Parran of the United States Public Health Service as the principal speaker, an all-day session on medicine was being heid to- day at Gallinger Municipal Hospital by alumni of the Georgetown Univer- sity Medical School. medicine at the school, was in charge of the morning session, at which lec- tures were given on various profes- sional topics by Dr. Matthew White Perry, Dr. Henry B. Gwynn, Dr. An- THE O72¢ LIKE BEST . | Dr. Wallace M. Yater, professor of | toine Schneider and Dr. Charles P. Cake. At the luncheon session Dr. Parran, an alumnus of the medical school, spoke on the control of social diseases from the viewpoint of the Public Health Service. About 150 visiting and local physi- cians attended the reunion dinner giv- en by the medical school last night at the Shoreham Hotel. Rev. David V. McCauley, S. J., regent and dean, was in charge of arrangements. It was an informal affair. After surgical clinie tomorrow morning at Georgetown Uni- versity Hospital, when Dr. James A. Cahill, jr., presides, the alumni will stage & golf tournament at the George- town Preparatory School links, Dr. Willlam J. Stanton is arranging the tournament. . “Autobahns,” new safety highways in Germany, have bridges at every crossroad. HOW FORTUNATE THAT ICE CREAM CONSIDERED BEST FOR CHILDREN IS THE ICE CREAM THAT CHILDREN . . 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