The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-07-12
By HARVEY O'CONNOR
Federated Press.)

WASHINGTON, July II (FP).-Of
the two predominant issues in Amer
lean foreign policy, the government
relations with Britain and with Latin
America, the latter is causing more
and more concern. Although Geneva
has brought the growing, cocksure i'm
perialism of America face to face with
the declining but still arrant impe-
rialism of Britain, officials in both
the state and commerce departments
view Latin American developments
with more anxiety. Meeting Britain's
claim of supremacy on the sea is a
mere matter of money and ships, but
the Latin American question is far
more subtle and less amenable to solu-
ton by simple superiority of guns
and marines.
The hollow apology of the Federal
Oil Conservation Board that it really
did not mean what it said when it
urged full state department support
for naked oil imperialism in Mexico
and South America instances the deli
cate relations between the Yankee
Colossus of the North" and the appar-
emily weak and divided nations south
Of the Rio Grande Said the Board in
a recent report:
Urges Oil Imperialism.
"The fields of Mexico and South
America are of large yield and much
promising geological oil structure as
yet undrilled That our companies
should vigorously acquire and explore
such fields is of first Importance, not
only as a source of future supply, but
a supply under our own citizens"
Naturally the Latin oil-producing
ountries-Mexico, Colombia, Vene-
zuela-have interpreted that as mean
ing that American oil companies
should monopolize the Latin American
fields, driving out foreign, j, e. Brit
ish, competitors and preventing the
nations involved from exerting any
control over their own greatest natu-
raj. resource. In the phrase under
control of our own citizens" they
visualize American battleships and
marines supporting American exploit
ters in obtaining and keeping a mo-
nopoly of a product which the Latins
regard as belonging to all the people,
rather than to few powerful foreign
corporations.
Oil Diplomacy.
The Boards labored apology speaks
of respect for the needs of the nations
WASHINGTON, (FP) July IL
From one small nest of legal reaction
in st. Paul the Harding Coolidge adj
nlinistration has drawn four retainers
20 make the government safer for big
finance and industrial capital. With
Solicitor General William D. Mitchell
now acting attorney-general n
Robert E. Odds, assistant secretary of
state elevated to the position of I'M
der-scretary of state, all four now
occupy posts of utmost Importance.
Mitchell was chief of the Minnesota
law firm from which Harding drew
Pierce Butler. to sit on the Supreme
Court. Butler was a railroad lawyer.
Frank B. Kellogg, after the people
threw him out of the senate occupied
offices in the same building with
Butler and Mitchell Coolidge re-
warded Kellogg for his faithfulness
to standpattism by putting him in
charge of Americas foreign affairs
about the worst move Cal ever
made. Kellogg invited his partner,
Odds, to come east and enjoy the
clover in the state departments pas
ture. Now Odds is under-secretary
and may succeed Sheffield as am
bassador to Mexico. Thus three of
the Four Rough Riders of Reaction
in Minnesota find themselves in
charge Of American foreign policy
and federal prosecution-a strategic
position considering the Ohio gang
with the fourth, Butler, regarded as
dominating force in the Supreme
Court. sSSE