New Britain herald., 1929-12-31
FOREIGN CONTACTS
 APPEAR VERY GOOD
New Year Finds American Rela.
 tionS Abroad Peaceful

Washington, Dec. Sl CP' - The American ship of state sailed in tran ouil international seas. untretted by major storms of conflicting interest, as the New Year dawned.
 North. south, west, Pilot Hoover could discern no grave perpleNity just ahead for his administration that was not problem common 10 all the family of nations.
 His chief concern as navigator was to eastward. It had to do with he nearing London conference on naval armamcnts; with new efforts in promotion of permanent peace.
 In the Far East, war clouds hoy cred over the tangled Sino Russian railway dispute in Manchuria. In Washington, however. no immediate question of protecting American lives or interests complicated renew cd efforts of Secretary StimsOn to find within the broad terms of the Kellogg Briand universal peace pact a formula of diplomatic pressure for peace.
 With Mexico 10 the south as with ranada to northward, American re- lations were friendly. No new dis nute over oil lands or banditry had arisen 10 veX the tranquility of Mexican-American contacts Ambas- 5ador Morrow had achieved.
 Tn Central and South America. also. the outcry of anti-Americanism and alleged American imperialism. which marked the troubled course of Nicaragua's civil war, had died away.
 Nicaragua was consolidating it. self under leadership of it's liberal president, General Moncada, and American marines. who supervised the election and crushed outbreaks of banditry, were awaiting orders for home. their numbers already greatly reduced.
 Farther south, problems Of years standing and that had always hell 8 threat of war yielded al last to pacific adjustments. Peru and Chile had found means to bridge in friend ship the Tacna-Arica rift: the bor- der dispute between Bolivia and Paraguay, blood tinged at the outset, was moving slowly toward peaceful adjustment under inspiration Of Pan- American machinery located in Washington.
 In Europe. the passing Of Ger many's great conciliator. Gustav Stresemann, made no break in the progress of postwar rapprochement 10 which the United States has let it's aid continuously while standing aloof, as a government, from Euro pean political quarrels.
 Rise Of a new labor ministry in England served only to pave the way President Hoover hGd charted toward the London naval barley and, for the first time. had brought a British prime minister and an Amer ican president into round table dis cussion of common problems and aims.
 Marking the more hopeful out look of peace plans. former Secre- tary Kellogg and his vis-a-Vis. Bri- and of France, were receiving abroad highest honors for their joint labors in erection of the universal peace pact.
 Both Italy and France had beer won to participation in the London naval barley despite their refusa 10 take that course two years before al President Coolidge's invitation
 Thus, at the New Year. the moe active phases of Ame-ica's interna. uonal dealings were those aimed world peace.
 Still ahead lay the many and diff fcult questions that might arise iron external aspects Of new American farm relief or tariff legislation: bu in none of these lay war threats or challenge to Americas will to live a peace with all peoples.