The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-08-08
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With
THE NE WIS
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Practically all the speakers at the
round tables and forums on Latin
America attack what they call
American imperialism. Not that
these speakers are so-called radicals.
None of them is Communist or
Socialist, or even a representative
Of a peace organization.
But as political scientists and pro-
fessors of international law, these
good Democrats and Republicans
object .strenuously on legal and
moral grounds to the Yankee inter-
vention policy. And the speakers
from Latin-American countries feel
even more strongly on this subject.
Any idea that the much adver-
tiSed anti-war pact, which Kellogg
is going to sign in Paris this month,
will protect our Caribbean neigh
bors from us or restrain our mill
tary rule in those Independent"
countries, is simply laughed out Of
these forums.
Here, for instance, is the sober
DR.. John H. Latane Of Johns Hop
kins University, leader Of these dis
cussions, conservative enough to
oppose the proposed legislation to
take from the President the discre-
tionary power of military interview
ton. Abuses Of which Latane
thinks should be corrected by pub
lie opinion. Saws Latane:
THE anti-war pact proposed by
Secretary Kellogg would not in any
way affect such a situation as
Nicaragua. So far none of the
Latin states has been in
vited to unite in this pact, and even
if they should become parties to it.
we would, under the Monroe doc
trine object to European powers
having anything to say.
I'm view of this situation, Eng
land very cleverly has advanced a
Monroe Doctrine Of her own, and
has agreed to sign the anti-war pact
with vague reservation covering
apparently Egypt, India, Afghani-
stan, and other regions in which she
has special interests.
n
"TTODAY Latin America is the
Il main field Of American COM
mercial and financial exploitation.
and the Monroe doctrine has been
transformed from a benevolent
policy Of protection into the chief
instrument of American emperial-
ism. We are, as a matter Of fact,
with the exception of England, the
most inperialistic Nation on earth.
"Plutocratic interests always en-
deavor to use the armed forces Of
the country in backing up their
foreign enterprises. We are facing
one of the greatest struggles in
American history, the struggle be-
tween imperialism and democracy"
Replying to the administrations
claim that it intervenes only to-
protect American lives and prop
erty, Latane said: THE marines
were landed in Nicaragua to pro-
tect Americans living in Wall
Street" =
He cited Secretary Mellon and
the Gulf Oil Company as an
example of the close connection be-
tween American business interests
and foreign policy, and charged the
administration with Threatening
war against Mexico to protect
Doheny and Sinclair's Mexican oil
titles. some Of which were obtained
fraudulently."
International arbitration is the
only just way to settle Caribbean
disputes, and the only justified in
tervention is collective action after
juridicial decision, according 70 DR..
Victor BelaInde, a Peruvian from
Miami University.
FREDERICK A. Pezet, former am
bassador from Peru to the United
States, joined in the chorus deny
ing this country the right of inter-
vention.
NEISS ANNIE S. PECK, writer on
I'VE Latin American a f IRIS,
charged marine cruelty and disrup-
ton of representative native gov
eminent for the benefit Of Amer
lean financial interests in countries
of American occupation such as the
Dominican Republic, Haiti and
Nicaragua.
The only dissenters we're Guy
Stevens and Butler Sherwell.
Stevens, as director of the Associa-
ton of Petroleum Producers in
Mexico, defended the course Of the
oil companies. He said all the
courts had acquitted Doheny and
Sinclair.
But Latane quoted the Supreme
Court decisions, "condemning cer-
tain of their transactions as fraudu-
lent and corrupt"
Sherwell, Latin American re-
search committee OF Columbia Uni
versity, said, Intervention in the
Caribbean is not due entirely to
serving the selfish ends of tie
United States"
Count Carlo Sforza, former Italian
ambassador to France, without
touching on the western hemisphere,
argued that in Europe and the far
east the forces Of democracy are
more significant than the postwar
relationships. While condemning
the Russian dictatorship and, by
inference, fascism, he did not spe-
cifically mention italy and Musso-
lini
The reversal to "autocracy" in
such countries as Hungary and
Spain should not be discouraging
because they never we're really
democratic, according to the count.
'Nationalistic, militaristic Japan,
as it is still thought of in Europe
and America, is a thing Of the past,
desDite aDDearanceS said SforZa.