Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-12-18

| ever since. If they left, he might
have TO leave with them.
| During a revolution I'm Honduras in
| 1924 the Marines landed to protect
| lie and property. to restore and main
tain order. They established neutral
zones. one of them including the cap
ital city of Tegucigalpa, and were
Withdrawn after safety of life and
| property was once more assured.
/ A loan to Salvador by American
bankers in 1928 received the approval
OF the State Department, and an
agreement was written into the loan
providing for settlement by the Chief
Justice of the United States Supreme
Court of matters in dispute, should
any arise.
The new treaty with Panama, signed
last year but as vet unratified by the
Panaman Legislature, contains a
clause in which Panama is to consider
herself in a state of war Gin case of
! any war in which the United States
should be a belligerent"
Such instances, and many others. in
dictate the exclusive and almost dicta-
torial control of the United States
over the countries of the Caribbean
control which many believe neceS-
sary, but which is constantly attacked.
Critics of the American policy are in
cliEed to ridicule the reference to
'21 independent republics saying
that from this Il should be subtracted
Cuba, Haiti, San Domingo, Nicaragua
and Panama, as being dependent upon
the United States. They say that the
United States shows every intention
of making good the assertion of PresI
dent Hayes that the Panama Canal
is a part of the coast line of the
United States" They say that it is
wrong to talk of treaties with Haiti.
San Domingo and Nicaragua as if
those treaties expressed the will of
the people of those countries, for they
are actually dictated from Washing
ton. They say that the natural re-
action throughout Latin America 10
the American policy is the conclusion
that Anglo-SaXons of the United
States have set themselves up as the
ruling force of the earth, RELOCATING
Latin Americans to an inferior lace.
They say that these small l. untrias
would rather be misgOvern' at home
than governed from abroad.
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But there are others who are proud
of the American policy III the Cari6-
bean. They say that it has been pur-
sued in the face of criticism end tic
difficulties of making honest motives
understood. They point 10 the fact
that in every case where the United
States has interviewed, good results
have fOllOWed-results which show
themselves not in days but in years,
which are not aimed at helping politi-
cal parties but in helping the people
and developing the resources of their
land. The American Caribbean policy
has been described as being derived,
first, from a realization of the ohliga-
lions of the United States toward
weaker and less favored nations:
second, from the strict duty of the
United States to protect the interests
of Americans whom ii has encoura gad
to invest their capital and go abroad
themselves third from the fact the
the United States is bound to protec
investments of the citizens of foreign
nations In the countries involved. to.
the United States has denied them
that right themselves, and that while
foreign investments are TO be pro.
tected, foreign intrigue is to be guard
ed against; fourth, from the fact fbat
the United States must at times in.
tervene by force to restore law and
order, or else stand idly by and watch
everything go to pieces, with no ones
nIe or property safe and with no one
else to re-establish order, and. fifth.
from the fact that the United States
should assist in the financial rehabjli-
tatlon of these countries by guaran-
teeing that loans viii be based on good
security, which often necessitates n
lien on customs receipts and careful in.
Vestlgation to find what the resource.
OF the country will stand in revenue.
This, 1t is maintained, is imperial
ism, but a benevolent form of i'm
perialism which is slowly voiding the
necessity which brought it into being.
but which must be exercised SO long
as the necessity remains, =