The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-21
KELLOGG STARTS
WORK ON LATIN
AMERICAN MEET
To Fight for Melons
Oil Interests
BY LAWRENCE TODD.
Federated Press.)

WORKER, while publishing the
following article for its news value,
does not concur in the possible inn
plication that the appointment Of
Morrow as ambassador to Mexico
is q reversal of the Kellogg policy
and indicates a more friendly APP
proach to the solution of the MeXi-
can question.
On the contrary, altho there are
Of course variations and conflicts
of interests among the capitalist
groups mentioned nevertheless the
presence of Morrow as ambassador
and Henry 2, Fletcher, one Of the
Pittsburgh machine dominated by
Andrew w. Mellon, as a Latin
American expert" at the coming
Havana conference indicates unity
of action between the House OF
Morgan and the Mellon and other
oil interests, rather than a con-
flict on policy. A study of the
personnel of the American delega-
ton reveals the fact that all in
terests are we'll represented, even
that of the Roman Catholic heir
archy, formerly the largest land
holder in Mexico, in the person Of
Judge Morgan j O'Brien, whose
appointment is not mentioned by
Lawrence Todd.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 20 (FP).-
Henry P. Fletcher, ambassador to
Italy, former ambassador to Chile
and to Mexico, and chairman of the
American delegation at the Fifth
Pan-American Congress held at San
tiago in 1923, has been set up in
special office, at the State Depart
ment, to prepare for the work of the
Sixth Pan-American Congress in
Havana IN January.
The American colonial office,
hitherto located in the Carnegie built
palace of the Pan-American Union,
is thus moved to>a location under the
immediate eye of Frank B. Kellogg,
secretary of state, and just a few
steps away from President Coolidge
and Secretary of the Treasury Mel
lon. For the Pan-American Union is
the real colonial office of the United
States, and its occasional congresses
are the occasions when the will of
the North American overload is made
manifest to all the governments and
peoples in the Latin Americas.
Andy MELONS, Henchman.
Charles Evans Hughes is the chair
man Of the American delegation that
will go to Havana; but Hughes was
Kellogg's predecessor and hence
would not occupy an office under
Kellogg's domain. Besides, Hughes
is lawyer for many Of the biggest
groups in Wall Street, while Fletcher
is known as a Pittsburgh product -
henchman of Andy Mellon and an
ardent supporter of Mussolini
Administration policy equir d
that Ambassador Morrow, late of
Morgan & Co., now engaged in paci-
flying Mexican public sentiment and
thereby improving the chances of a
stable Mexican government which
will be able to pay interest on $780,
100000 worth of government debt
and railroad bonds, should be one of
the delegation to Havana.
Mellon VS.. Morgan.
Morrow is so close to President
Coolidge that it was at first guessed
that Morrow would dominate Ameri-
can policy at the Havana congress.
But the early return Of Fletcher to
Washington, and his installation in a
screened-off end of the big formal
reception room of the Department,
is a sign that the Mellon oil inter-
ests in Mexico has not yet yielded to
the Morgan bond interests. Melons
oil companies are the fourth in size
in the Mexican field, and they are
hostile to the Gales government
WHICH Morrow is now cultivating.
On the day that Fletcher's special
office adjoining that of Kellogg was
fitted up, Thomas W. Lamont, of
Morgan & Co., just returned from
Manchuria, had long interview with
Kellogg, followed by talks with In
dersecretary Odds and with Mellon.
Lamont was accompanied by Mitchell
Of the National City Bank. Fletcher
also was in consultation with Kellogg
and Odds. Whether Lamont and
Mitchell discussed Latin-American
imperial problems is a matter of
speculation
Morrow Is Stuck.
What is now certain is that kel.
logg, disliking the prestige given to
the suave Morrow and the reversal
of his own policy Of threats and in
trigue and conquest in Latir
America, will play up the Mellon oil
interests in his approach to the
Havana meeting. And this in turr
! will arouse a new storm of resent
lnent in Latin America which is 60