Evening star., 1925-05-03
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

| ~ NE of the features of United
States foreign policy under
Secretary Kellogg, about
~ which more will presently be
| apparent, will be relations
with South and Central America.
| Friendship and fraternity with our
sister republics of the two Americas,
| rather than political intimacy with
| Europe, is a policy to which Secretary
Kellogg is preparing intensively to
devote himself. He will do so in strict
| accord with President Coolidge. What
is hardly less important is that he
will carry out that policy in the GER
| tainty that Senator Borah approves it.
| The new chairman of the Senate com
| mittee on foreign relations believes
thoroughly in pan-American co-opera-
! ton all along the line.
That statement. which is made with
Senator Borah's authority, has led to
| the discovery by this writer that in
| recent times something like an en-
! tente cordiale has sprung up between
| Kellogg and Borah. The Senator has
visited the State Department frequent
| ly since Kellogg succeeded Hughes.
| While Hughes was Secretary of State
| there is no record of any consultation
| between them. That situation would
| probably have continued if Hughes
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partment. kellogg's advent there has
| changed it. Borah, as chairman Of
| foreign relations in the Senate. has
| discovered that he can consult freely
| with Kellogg, and is doing so. Their
] conferences are not interrupted or
made impracticable by the fact that
! Borah does not see eye to eye with the
| administration on a number of out
| standing issues. Soviet Russia, and the
[ af TO Io
| thing they principally disagree about
| Secretary kellogg is stern non
recognitionist. 1t is certain that he
| loses no opportunity to- impress his
! views, and the first-hand knowledge
| he recently gained in Europe, on Sen.
| ator Borah.
| May Go to South America.
| 1t is significant of the attention
which the United States Government
/ intends bestowing upon pan-Ameri-
can relations that Senator Borahs
| first trip abroad, if and when he
makes it. will be to South America
At one time he planned to go to Eu-
rope this year. Now. If he can leave
| the country at all, 1t will be to cross
1 the equator and not the Atlantic. He
| considers 1t of paramount interest tc
him, in his new post at the head OF
the foreign relations committee, tc
| see the Americas first"
Secretary Kellogg has been an en-
| thuslast on pan-American solidarity
ever since he attended the fifth pan.
American conference in Chile as one
| of the United States delegates In
| 1928, at President Hardings appoint
ment. Mr.. Kellogg takes up pan
American relations at the State De-
| partment where Mr.. Hughes left then
/ off-in the best condition in which
! they have ever been. That assertion
is made by a qualified authority,
Senor ]. Varela, Uruguayan Minister
at Washington, who is vice chairman
! of the governing board of the Pan
American Union.
Would Explode Charges.
1t is no new policy on the part OF
| the United States that Secretary Kel
| logg plans to institute. He means
merely to carry out our traditional
| policy, pursued with more than or
| binary vigor by Secretary Hughes
Mr.. Kellogg, like Mr.. Hughes, will
omit no opportunity to show Central
| and South America that charges OF
/ =.