Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-09-24
STEWART RECALLS SUGGESTION FOR
UNITED STATES OF EUROPE MADE In
SECOND YEAR OF WORLD WAR PERIOD

eSenafah fresS STAFF Wrtter)
WASHINGTON. Sept. IA
Unite States OF Europe already was
beginning to be suggested as early
e. the second year Of the World
war.
ms ipea had not the influential
Dackir6 then Of such high-power
statesmen as tie present Premier
BRAND Of France and Foreign Min
ister Stresemann Of Germany. 1t
was mentioned mostly In the small
neutral countries newspapers. The
pig n~elligerents were too busy fight
ing TO pay any attention to 1t.
However, the small fry, scared
nan to death, were giving what lit
t1e encouragement they could to 1t,
as maybe offering the only hope of
thier survival.
For instance. the plan va re-
1erred to BY the Norwegian newspa-
permen at a luncheon which they
gave to their American brethren
with Henry Ford's peace expedition
during the party's visit in Chris
tiania Cnow Oslo.
It came up again at a similar
blowout given to the Americans by
their Dutch fellow craftsmen at
The Hague.
It was discussed in Sweden and
Denmark.
The Scandinavians and the
Dutch press crowd wanted the
Americans to help the scheme along
with q publicity campaign, when
they got back to the United States.
Frankly American newspaper folk
we're mostly too DANCED ignorant
then for such a concept to make
the slightest impression or them.
They had about as much interna-
tional consciousness as a jackrabbit.
Besides the Ford peace expedition
vas too delirious an affair for any,
Dne connected with 1t to take wen
the war seriously.
II the correspondents, Of which I
was one, could have foreseen that
presently the United States would
be involved In the European con-
flict. possibly the Norsemen's and
the Netherlands hints would not
have been so completely wasted on
their American guests.
The original notion OF q Euro
pean United States had nothing IN
It OF the yelled unfriendliness to-
ward America which somewhat
characterizes Premier Brands and
Foreign Minister Stresemann's out
line Of q combination Of the old
nations to buck this country's
threatened commercial absorption
Of everyone and everywhere.
At any rate, Washington Official
don1A rznquestionably believes 1t de-
tectslA semi-unfriendly Cor suspici-
ousJnote in NJ. Brands and Herr
Stresemann's utterances-that Is,
an implication that they feel some
thing has got to be done about 1t,
or economically Europe will be ut
terly gobbled up by America.
A thread Of realization or this
European sentiment runs conSpicu-
ously through all discussions Of
the tariff, which now Is practically
monopolizing the senate's attention.
Indeed, there are faint whispers
OF the possibility OF a move in the
direction Of q Pan-American Gus
toms union to oppose the United
States OF Europe-should 1t mate
rialize.
This Is q suggestion I heard made
several years ago by Ambassador
Crestes Ferrara, or Cuba-but ap-
parently as q mere abstraction. and
certainly with no exception on my
part that any American statesman
ever would pay It the honor Of the
briefest minutes consideration
It would be q wonderful thing
for the Americas. OF course-after
the Reorganization in certain lines
Of industry had had time to pass
off.
It also. under present conditions
would be q mighty popular PROPOSE
ton to submit to the republics to
the south Of us-but maybe not
90 popular II they had q United
States OF al the Americas, on the
one hand, and a commercial union
with Europe. on the other hand, to
choose between.
Latin America is essentially Eu-
ropean IN everything but its geog-
raphy.