Evening star., 1928-02-12
BY FRANK n. SIMONDS.

BY FRANK II. SIMONDS.
~ ENEVA-Not since the height
OF the resentment reused by
r the debt question, more than
~ two years ago, has there been
any such explosion Of criti-
cism OF the United States as has ac-
companied the Pan-American Confer
ence at Havana. Why this meeting
should have had any large Importance
for Europe 1t Is difficult TO see; never
II with something like general unanim-
ity and used it as the opportunity to
denounce the United States.
Actually the Havana affair came as
climax to the series OF American in
| cidents which have attracted general
| European attention. Within single
month We had proclaimed naval pro-
gram which. for Europe. was the prom
ise Of American supremacy: In our
discussions with France over treaty
| to outlaw war we had conducted an
| operation judged by Europe to be an
attack upon the League Of Nations.
which to the European mind was as
/ dangerous as 1t was direct; finally. at
| Havana. we were-so Europe assumed
undertaking TO demonstrate our he
gemony In the three Americas.
! Hit "New" Monroe Doctrine.
As a result, all European journals
turned suddenly to the discussion Of
the American phenomenon. What were
we after and what, beyond all else.
We had so much to say? It had been.
Paris newspapers solemnly explained. a
proclamation designed to forbid Euro
pean powers from conducting colonial
enterprises In America. to prohibit the
holy alliance from assisting In the
rcconquest Of Spanish colonies. 1t was.
then, century ago a doctrine OF
America for the Americans.
But 1t was that no longer. On the
contrary, as the United States now
proclaimed it, the Monroe Doctrine vas
a policy which operated to enable the
United States. without European inter-
ference. to exploit and direct all three
Americas. It was the wall by which
we were seeking to shut Europe and
the world out Of South America. Our
policy was not the old Monroe Doc
| trine, America for the Americans" "
but the new "All the Americas for the
/ Yankees"
And what were We doing down there?
Every important newspaper IN Europe.
in London as In Paris and In Rome.
managed to set the news Of the fight
Ing coming from Nicaragua alongside
the expressions of American idealism
uttered by the President Of the United
States and echoed By the American
press and public opinion.
Hypocrisy Charged.
Nicaragua. for Europe. was the sign
that We intended to do In Central
America what Great Britain. France
Germany, all the colonial powers. had
done In Asia and in Africa. Our In
references In various directions. al
Panama. In Haiti. in Nicaragua. were
carefully collected into a statistical
disclosure Of American intentions. Our
Marines were going In to protect our
dollars.
Inevitably. all American protesta.
tions OF high purpose were regarded
on this side of the Atlantic as hypo-
critical.
I'VE all have little Nicaraguas Of our
own" sneered the Morning Post In
London.
American imperialism is renewing
In Latin America the achievements oil
French imperialism in Morocco and
British in India" declared the Com
munistic Humanite Of Paris.
THE United States has two stand
ards for the great principles OF its
democratic peace policy" observed the
semi-osIicial Temps. In an article which
the London Times significantly re-
printed. according as 1t applies then,
universally or on the American Con-
tinent, where they are Subservient to
the hegemony 1t has already acquired
there"
Equally definite were the charges
that We were seeking TO establish ar,
American league OF nations which,
should be q rival to the Geneva inSti-
tuition but In which other member ma
tions would be subservient 10 US, We
we're seeking In part TO force. In part
10 persuade. the Latin American States.
members Of the Geneva body. TO leave
II, Like our attack upon the League
In our Briand-kellogg negotiations OF
a peace pact. the Havana episode was
aimed at the League Of Nations.
Hope Of Failure Seen.
And. from the outset. Europe hoped
that Havana would fail. Day after day
the press forecast the protests which
were to be made by varying South
American countries against our Mica
raguan action. against our other In
references Of q similar sort. which
were counted up and asserted to num-
Der 81. The announcement that Mex
leo would .efrain from making trouble
first produced Disappointment and
then provoked significant hints o!
pressure exterted from Washington.
What Europe hoped for. sun hopes
for. Is that there will take form In
South America some coalition amons
the greater and more powerful states
TO resist American influence. Amerl-
can financial. commercial and political
penetration. Europe itself Is conscious
that 10 Is helpless II has neither the
strength nor the resources TO undertake
the role OF protecting South America
against what II describes and believes
to be American imperialism.
All must depend upon the South
Americans themselves. but from Europe
every eonceivahl> ineitation Is being
despatched To hold. To resist, TO stand
against Yankee invasion, For ell the
Latin countries Of Europe this ineita-
ton Ia at once born of cultural and
racial syMpathies and of solid material
interests, Paris Is meaanraely the III
teliectual capital ot all Latin America,
italy has full million of her eMigrants
established In the Argentine alone,
| America Taking Lead,
Up 10 the Word War the bonds he
tween Europe and South America were
much closer than those between the
Nuuhern and southern Continents. Ei-
rope financed South America, daminat-
ed lis markets, Hut today America Is
steadily replacing Great Britain both rs
an exporter and an Importer. a. a
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