Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-21

Senior Hipolito Irigoyen, the deposed
President of Argentina, has met with
widespread rejoicing in editorial coll
umns
During the last two years the presence
of Senior Irigoyen in the Argentine gov
eminent had been the cause of cool
ness in the diplomatic relations of the
United States with the most progressive
one of the Latin American republics
For the Argentine President, tradition
ally unfriendly to Uncle Sam, had i'm
pressed upon his administration policy
of discreet aloofness and non-co-opera-
ton toward the United States.
Though he could not very well adopt
an attitude of open opposition toward
the great colossus of the North" he
neglected no opportunity to show his
lack of sympathy for Uncle Sam. Since
the early days of his administration he
encouraged the campaign of Argentine
newspapers and politicians against the
protectionistic tariffs being discussed by
the Congress at Washington. And when
these were approved, he openly ex-
pressed his discomfort and predicted
menacing oscillations on the part of
Argentine manufacturers.
IGNORES CALL TO COOPERATION.
The homeopathic spirit of the
Irigoyen administration toward the
Pan-AmeTican cause was VIGOROUSLY
and repeatedly shown in it's constant
neglect to send delegates to the inter
national conferences of American
States held during the last two years
in Washington. In none of the last
three or four Pan-American assemblies
gathered in this Capital, with different
purposes, was the Argentine govern
ment officially represented. This Ar
gentine absence was especially regre ted
and criticized in the conference of ar
bitration, which was to discuss topics
of the highest significance for the polit-
ical relations of the New World
countries.
But where President 1rigoyen's re-
luctant attitude toward the United
States was most plain was in his per-
sistent refusal to appoint an AInbas-
sador to Washington. Since the
Inauguration of the Irigoyen govern
ment, the Argentine embassy in Wash
ington has been vacant, and Argentine
periodicals as well as Latin publications
in general attributed this fact exclu-
sively to the personal feeling of this
high-handed ruler. One OF the first
acts of the provisional military gov
eminent now in control of Argentina
has been to declare that an Ambassa-
dor to the United States will be desig-
mated very soon.
With all these precedents Il is not
difficult to understand that Argentine
American relations had been consider
ably embarrassed for the last two years
by the somewhat undiplomatic attitude
of Senior Irigoyen. And, naturally, it
is not surprising in the least to see
American opinion rejoicing now at the
reports Of a new government taking
oh nf AZ afr In,
Latin republic of the South.
RECOGNIZING NEW
GOVERNMENTS.
The policy to be followed by the
United States with respect to the
recognition of the newly established
military governments in Latin America
had caused considerable comment in
Washington, and was awaited with ex-
traordtnary interest in the Southern
countries.
There were last week three South
American republics under the rule of
provisional military luntas = Bolivia,
Peru and Argentina. They had all been
established in the short period of two
months and they all had had similar
origin and seemed to have a similar
ideal They all had seized power by
overthrowing personalistic and unpop-
ular regimes and were now laboring for
the creation of new and more demo-
cratic governments.
The attitude of the United States was
of paramount Importance at this time,
for instead OF being the result of that
legendary revolutionary habit" of the
Latin Americans, these juntas were the
outcome of a Widespread tendency of
political reform which is sweeping all
over the Southern hemisphere. The
circumstances were different, then, from
those that led some years ago to an
agreement between this country and
the Central American nations for the
non-recognition of revolutionary gov
ernments.