The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-15
BY M. N. ROY.

permit the Monroe Doctrine to be
touched by any treaty of arbitration
that may eventually be contracted be-
tween the powers.
The reservation has been made in
the proposal presented by Kellogg to
BRAND for multilateral treaty
among the powers, the preamble of
which will be declaration outlawing
war.
The significance of this reservation
is that the United States consider
Latin America as it's colony and de-
mand that the European powers do
cilely recognize this as a fai accom-
phi accomplished fact).
Trere was time, up to the middle
of the Nineteenth Century, when the
European powers-France, England,
Austria, Spain-zdisputed the preten-
ton of the United States ito protect
the republican system in the New
World against the aggression from
the Old"
Those days are gone. The hege-
nlony of the United States over Latin
America is now tacitly recognized,
although competition for economic
and financial influence and political
intrigues are never suspended. None
of the European powers, however,
would now displease the rich Uncle
Sam by openly disappearing his bull
lying methods of managing his south
ern neighbors. Otherwise, it might
have been demanded by the European
powers, who do not very much relish
the recurring "peace-proposals" from
| Washington, that the war of open ag-
gression against Nicaragua ceased be-
fore any such proposal could receive
serious consideration.
e. Hypocrisy of U. S.
Uncle Sam has really beaten the
other imperialist governments in
bourgeois hypocrisy. In his own par
lance, he has "some nerve" to talk
supereiliously of peace while cynic-
ally bombing the people of Nicaragua
and planning to build so more battle
ships costing 800 million dollars.
Whatever may be the attitude of
Europe to American imperialism,
Latin American resistance to it grows
steadily. 1t is remarkable how even
little Nicaragua has one uprising a
few months after the other has been
SO brutality crushed.
But the latest and the most un-
expected resistance comes from Ar
gentina. Being the farthest away
from the United States the Argentine
Republic has all along been rather
lukewarm towards the anti-American
sentiment generally prevalent thru
out Latin America. While Uncle Sam
was busy in putting the smaller re-
publics bordering the Caribbean Sea
and the Panama Canal Zone into or
der, the far off Argentine developed
into full-fledged modern bourgeois
state without much interference from
the north, and in closer economic con-
nection with Europe. Until the war
British capital was predominant in
Argentine and her trade with Europe
was much greater than that with the
| United States. During the war Wall
Street gained much ground; but OBJ
viously Argentina had passed the
stage of political minority which
might be a pretext of foreign inter-
vention in her internal affairs. This
being the case, there was no cause
of open conflict between Argentina
and the United States. The Argen-
| tinian bourgeoisie, which since the
war is as much connected with New
York as with London, did not care
to displease Washington by mixing
up in it's quarrels with other Latin
American republics.
Argentine Opinion.
Congress, which opened at Havana
on January Is, a powerful anti
American agitation has broken out
in Argentina.
Under the pressure of this cam
paign the government has been forced
to consider what attitude it's delega-
ton to the Pan-American Congress
should take in case the Nicaraguan
question We're excluded from the
agenda as it is likely to be on the
dictation of the United States dele
cation. The decision of the govern
ment is not yet known; but it is of
significance and Importance that the
Argentinian government has aban-
doned it's indifference to the situation
in Nicaragua, and indifference which
was few days ago emphasized in
Berlin by it's foreign minister. The
entire Argentine press carries on, as
the correspondent of the Berliner
| Tageblatt reports, "a campaign
against American imperialism with
bitterness hitherto unusual here"
For example, the leading bourgeois
daily LA Prensa writes;
1T cannot be allowed that our
delegation to Havana keeps quiet
Con the Nicaraguan question:. 1t
nit