Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-11-23
in LATIN AMERICA
By CASTOR NERVAL.

American Congress of Rectors, Deans
and Educators met in the City Of Ha-
yana in February of this year to pro-
vide the institute with constitution
and bylaws and program for Its flu
ture activities. At this congress all the
American republics, with the exception
of Honduras, were officially represented.
The congress recommended the appoint
ment of a national council of intel
lectual cooperation In each Of the
American republics. The United States
council, consisting of some 55 members,
has already been named, and the Execu-
tive Committee of this council Is the Or
ganization which has just announced
its establishment.
This committee includes such promi-
nent educators as DR.. Frank Aydelotte,
president of Swarthmore College; DR.,
Isaiah Bowman, director OF the Amert-
can Geographical Society Of New York;
DR.. William John Cooper, Commissioner
of Education, Washington; DIR. Stephen
F. Duggan, director of the Institute of
International Education; DR.. John @.
Merriam, president Of the Carnegie In
stitution of Washington: DR.. PendletOn,
president of Wellesley College, and DR..
James Brown Scott, president of the
American Institute Of International
Law.
AS the report on the organization Of
the council reads, although "for many
years there has been an interchange of
students and professors between the
United States and various countries of
South and Central America, as well as
along other scientific and cultural lines,
the need has been felt increasingly,
however, for permanent center and a
continuous direction of this movement,
so that the Americas should In the fu-
ture even more than in the past unite
their efforts to cooperate in the con-
stantly expanding intellectual and cul-
tural domain of the Western hemi-
sphere" The purpose Of the Inter-
American Institute of Intellectual Co
operation is to fill this need, and in
such task the United States council will
undoubtedly have prominent part.
1t is encouraging to witness these
efforts to develop one aspect of Pan
Americanism which had almost been
forgotten in the past. OF the three fac
tors upon which the success of the Pan
American movement depends none had
been so neglected as the intellectual
phase The two others-the political and
e. homie factors-have gained UGH
ground in the last few years. The
strengthening of official and diplomatic
relations between the United States and
has progressed notably. Efforts have
been made to avoid the reefs which
have heretofore INSTRUCTED or which still
hinder the establishment of really closer
relations, and everything has been done
to win the good will of the governments
south of the Rio Grande AS to the
economic phase, it is needless to repeat
here statistics of the extraordinary in
crease in the commercial relations be-
f1 nA ~ Gro nj oh
America. During the last 10 years the
totals of exports and imports have
doubled, and the interest of business
men in establishing trade with the
LatinS has increased q hundred fold.
Tho increase Of capital invested by
United States firms and individuals in
the various Latin countries has also
reached high totals, amounting today
to nearly $4,000, 100000.
Politically and economically a. APP
peared to be going sWimmingly. Never
theless no matter how close the eco
nomic relations, nor how many the good
will missions between the countries Of
the Americas, the work of Pan-Ameri-
caniSm could never have been COM
pleted so long as the intellectual factor
was not considered. At last this seems
to have been realized by those in charge
of educational activities in this coun-
try ana In the Latin nations, ana the
consequences OF such realization are
these first steps In intellectual inter-
change and Cooperation, which are
slowly but tenaciousiy working toward
the success of Pan-ATnerican ideals
A NEW AMBASSADOR.
Seldom has the appearance of q new
foreign envoy upon the diplomatic stage
of Washington been given q bigger
hand" than that which MARKED the ar
rival Of Senior Manuel MeioFan, Am
bassador from Argentina.
Newspapers and official circles unani
mously have greeted the arrival Of the
Distinguished Latin diplomat with I'M
usual rejoicing. And this because espe-
cial circumstances had given 1t almost
the character of a resumption Of diplo-
maGic relations between this country
and the Argentine Republic. Not that
they had actually been severed at any
time, but the GOODNESS and lack Of CO.
operation shown by the recently over
thrown administration Of the Southern
republic toward the United States were
so manifest and frequent that public
opinion IN this country was beginning to
suspect an unfriendly sentiment on the
part of the Argentine people,
The recently deposed President 1rigo-