Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-12-28
AFFAIRS
MOVE FORWARD In 1924
With Few Exceptions Relations of Ma
tons Show Progress During
Year Now Closing.

| and the Dominican Republic Is once
| more a self-governed nation.
4. The change of government in
Chile and the departure from the
country of President Alessandri was
one OF the most striking events of the
year in Latin America. The alarm
which was first felt in the outside
world when word was flashed abroad
that the President Of Chile had re-
signed and had sought asylum with
Ambassador Collier in tho American
| embassy at Santiago was not fully
justified by later events. The first
fear was that this act might mark
the beginning of costly revolution,
but when the peaceful character of
the change and the real motives
which had brought it about became
known the unrest subsidized. In spite
of the fact that there was some de-
parture from constitutional lines, 1t
was soon realized by tho outside
world, most Of which promptly recog-
nized the new government in Chile,
that there had BEEN nothing in the
nature of a real revolution; that the
reforms In the constitution which
seemed to DO necessary apparently
met with general popular support,
and that the political and constitu-
tional changes which were expected
of Chile, to greater stability of her
constitutional government and to her
economic improvement also. There
fore 1t was largely as a matter of
form, because of the necessity of
maintaining a position which she had
taken in regard to the recognition of
other new governments set up by
unconstitutional means. that the
United States delayed immediate
rarnUnfffnn n ov,f
in Chile. In tho meantime, however,
the most friendly informal relations
have been maintained.
Panama Canal Anniversary.
5. The tenth anniversary Of the
opening Of the Panama Canal,
although 1t was not marked by any
particular, ceremony, was an event
of moro than passing moment in the
years records. The Panama Canal
was thrown open to the commerce
of the world in August, 1914. The
decade was marked by an almost
steady growth, broken to some ex-
tent by the coming of the World
War, in the amount of the commerce
passing through the waterway. The
past fiscal year witnessed by far the
greatest increase in the commercial
activities of the canal, approximately
one-fourth of the tolls for the entire
10-year period, going to the credit Of
the fiscal year 1924.
Many other events Of the year, in
Guiding the holding of many pan
American and other international con-
crosses, might be mentioned. In no
previous year have SO many pan
American gatherings been held.
Practically all of those held this year
have been beneficial from an interna-
tional point of view. having permitted
helpful exchanges of information and
opinion and having accomplished def
mite and practical results. These con-
ferences, it Is believed, are aiding in
the development of the true pan
Americanism.
Reviewing the year 1924 as a whole,
1t can be truthfully said that, in
Latin America it has been marked on
the whole by definite progress, by ad-
vances in political and economic lines
and by a feeling of greater good will
and better relations among all pan
American nataions.
Copyright, 1924