The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-08-14
KEEPING UP
az With
THE NE WIS
BY LUDWIG DENNY

UNIVERSITY, Va, Aug. 14.-The
~ present war" in Nicaragua Is
due to the State Department double
crossing Sacasa, whose claim to the
presidency is supported by the reb-
els. by Mexico, by Senator Borah
and many other Americans, Accord
ing to DR.. T. S. Vaca, representative
Of Sacasa.
"Sacasa was told specifically he
was considered by the State Depart
ment as the constitutional heir to
the presidency, otherwise nobody
could have driven him to lead a rev.
dictionary movement" Vaca told the
Institute of Public Affairs here.
The State Department and its
policy of marine intervention was
defended by John Clayton, an Amer
lean correspondent recently in Mica
ragua. A neutral position was taken
by DR.. Roscoe Hill, until recently
American high commissioner in that
country.
Arthur Ruhl, another correspond
ent, said that now the marines were
in they would have to stay to super
wise the elections, as pledged.
LAS long as we pursue policy
which we may call militaristic
policy, and as long as we consider
the defense of the Panama Canal
and the defense Of our rights in re-
gard to Nicaraguan Canal, / do
not look for withdrawal of Ameri-
can marines" Prof. j. I. Cox,
Northwestern University, declared.
our marines were landed to pro-
tect Americans living in Wall
Street." in the opinion OF DR.. John
H. Latane of Johns Hopkins Uni
versity, leader of the Nicaraguan
round table here.
I'm denying the honesty and valid
4 ity of the Coolidge-Kellogg rea-
sons for American intervention,
Vaca said:
There is evidence enough for
anybody, because there is testimony
of former American officials to
prove there never has been any
danger to American lives and prop
erty until in recent months after
Marine intervention. General Sand
inc in retaliation has destroyed
some American property.
1t is not the proposed Nicaraguan
Canal that prompts intervention; 1
doubt whether they will build q
canal, because Of many natural dis
advantages including volcanic erup-
/ tons.
The other issue about the sup
posed corollary to the Monroe Doc
trine that has converted the United
States into a policeman to look into
all the financial failings Of Latin
America is also false.
LAS Prof. Cox has said, the real
motive for American intervention is
the strategic situation of Nicaragua
in Central America, and the COM
mercial expansion of the United
States.
when the Marines were tenn
porarily withdrawn in 1924, all the
parties and people celebrated; be-
cause no matter how humble their
aspirations, people always like to
be free. Now it is true most of the
people have been cowed into sub
mission by the State Department
and Marines"
HERE is Vacas proof" that the
Il 4 United States has not only yio-
lated Nicaraguan independence, but
has injured that country economic
ally and culturally:
Before intervention, Nicaragua.
in spite of its shortcomings, was get
ting along fairly we'll on the road
to progress, building up schools,
railroads, telegraph and telephones,
electric plants-all out of its own
resources.
There is nothing in Nicaragua to-
day that has been built I'D by the
bankers of American Intervention.
Now, after seventeen years of Amer
lean meddling in our political affairs
the number Of schools has dimin-
iShed.
Americans have forced an extrav-
agant and expensive administration
on the country, several railroad
branches have been abandoned,
freight and passenger rates have
been increased, taxes raised, and the
cost OF living increased"
According to Ruhl, 'the trouble
has not been so much our policy as
our lack of policy-tactlessness I'M
derestimating the Importance of
correct attitude and behavior mere
ly because the countries themselves
are small, weak and not always
themselves correct"
But Clayton insisted that "our
present position in Nicaragua is not
that of great power intervening in
the internal affairs of another ma
ton, but that of a mediator desired
and demanded by all the best ele-
mentS Of that nation"
The State Department preferred
Diaz to Sacasa because it thought
Diaz would stand hitched," Cox
said.
After eight years in Nicaragua
as commissioner, Hill said he was
completely at sea, that he had no
solution to offer.
NEWSPAPERS of the world con-
1 ' sciously are working for peace,
but often unconsciously through ex-
aggerated nationalism and provoca-
tive news they contribute to
certain incessant international irri-
tation,' Willis j. Abbott, contrib
uting editor to Christian Science
Monitor, told the institute.
Interest of the American public in