Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-19
N|CARAGUAN POLICY
OF u. S. IS PRAISED
Buell. of Foreign Policy Body
Sees CurtaiIed Protection
as Step Forward.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
PHILADELPHIA, April 18.-Raymond
L. Buell., research director OF the For
eign Policy Association, said today the
action Of the State Department in re-
stricting protection to Americans in
Nicaragua is IAN important step toward
placing relations of industrial powers
and backward countries upon a friendly,
non-imperialistic basis"
Addressing the annual meeting Of the
American Academy of Political and So
cial Science on "Our Future Relations
With Latin America" Buell. said: 1.-THE
good will which the United States will
gain in Latin America from this policy
of non-intervention will have q much
greater ethical and commercial value
than any policy Of protection by armed
force"
At last nights session, while Russian
affairs were under discussion, Repre-
sentative Hamilton Fish, jr., of New
York criticized the State Departments
present Nicaraguan policy. He said
Americans in whatever land they might
be were entitled to the protection Of
their Government.
Replies to Fish.
1.-THE United States Is apparently the
first industrial power to restrict its
interposition," said Mr.. Buell.. THE
protection Of foreign lives in disturbed
areas is justified on humanitarian
grounds But obviously such protection
cannot be extended throughout a coun-
try as a whole without establishing a
complete military occupation. Mr.. Slim
son does not intend that the State De-
partment should become an insurance
agency and give Americans abroad
~ hNf
home.
There is nothing In the Monroe
Doctrine, properly interpreted, which
imposes on the United States the obli-
CATION to protect property in Mica
ragua."
Wants Foreign Cooperation.
Manley o. Hudson Of the Law School
Of Harvard University, speaking on
How May We Best Cooperate in In
ternational Affairs2" said American
ton must be grounded on o clear con-
ception of the purpose of cooperation
and must be done because it is to the
Nations interest to do 80, rather than
because of altruistic motives.
The first step to improve cooperation
in international affairs, said D. @. Poole
Of the School of Public and Interna-
tional Affairs, Princeton University, is
to improve the machinery for the con-
duct Of our foreign relations"
THE deepest fault" he said, els in
our Constitution. The requirement of q
two-thirds vote in the Senate for ratify-
ing treaties was set up under circum-
stances at home and abroad very diff
ferent from those now prevailing"
Capital Man Hits Tariff.
Huston Thompson, Washington, D. C..
criticized the American tariff and rec
| commended creation Of an international
| trade tribunal to sit at Geneva 50 that
nations can present their complaints
| against the tariff, monopolies and I'M
fair methods of other nations.
I'm making our American tariff we
were apparently unconscious of the
| effect that it would have upon other
f., nations" he said.
William r. Montavon, director of the
legal department Of the, National Cath
ole Welfare Council, washington, .. O..
said that governments placed in office
with the support Of the armed forces
of the United States find it impossible
| to maintain themselves without that
support and this country Is cleft in the
undemocratic position of employing
armed forces to maintain the tyranny
Of minority"
! Points to Differences.
"An effort has been made to justify
pan-AmericaniSm by stresSing the tlainc
American nations have In common,
Montavon said. 80 far has this gone
that We are in danger Of forgetting
there are striking differences which
hold us apart, but which, when prop
erly understood. prove to be compile
mentary and compensatory.
Friendly intercourse between ma
tons grows deeper and more solidly in
the soil Of reciprocity and profitable
fair exchange than it ever will grow in
/, the soil of make-believe kinship Oh
similarity"