The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-06
Dwight w. Morrow

"Meester Morrow he shake hands with me five
times one morning And for why he shake hands
with meme Pancho! Because the sun was shining
and the roses were awful beautiful that day. He's
great man-this Meester Morrow" Pancho his
gardener at the American embassy in Mexico City,
was not alone in thinking Dwight Morrow a great
man.
When they were youths together at Amherst col
leee. Calvin Coolidge chose him as the man in the
class most likely to succeed"
Even when he was a young lawyer, j. P Morgan
thought he a great man and so took him into
the world banking concern Within five years he
was a partner the most active Morgan partner.
Why? The answer is not easy. There were men
more brilliant and more aggressive But there
something about Morrow that inspired confidence
confidence in his mind, confidence in his heart.
Everyone trusted him. That perhaps was the
secret of his remarkable achievements. That was
why the world of international finance and interna
tional diplomacy bowed to this simple, tousled smil
ing low-voiced absent minded little as the
greatest negotiator of his generation.
Paradoxically, there was something other worldly
about this OF money. He talked and looked like
an underpad college profeSSor-such as his father
whose mind far away from money.
Usually it was. He lived much in his books He
was scholar His range was wide, through the
classics, history, political economy, philosophy, and
sociology.
Morgan, it is said, always afraid he would
disappear some day and be found in a college retreat
studying and teaching. That almost happened when
Amherst was without president.
Finally he did run away. Still young man to
have achieved such eminence in the law and in
finance he chucked it all to take the most thankless
lob in the government service. That was the am
bassadorshp to Mexico.
The job had broken some of the best in
the diplomatic service. It had made Secretary of
state Frank B. Kellogg hated in Latin America, and
threatened the Coolidge administration. After long
pickering Mexico and the United States were close
to war.
When Morrow started for Mexico he was diplo-
matte question mark to most Americans and Mexi-
cans When he got there he left his top hat in his
trunk, kicked aside embassy red tape and strobe
through shocked secretaries straight into the presence
of the Mexican President.
Half an hour later President Emilio Gales
emerged from the palace afTectionately holding the
arm of an unassuming little man who appeared to
be long lost friend from village. Morrow
trusted Mexico and helped Mexico. So Morrow con-
ouered Mexco-for peace
He was not rewarded with appointment secre-
tary of state when Hoover entered the White House
He did not want to leave his Mexico City job until it
was done. But when the next big diplomatic task
turned up. there Morrow a member of the
American delegation to the London disarmament con-
ference.
His quiet work was responsible chiefly for break
ing the London deadlock Later his influence helped
to obtain the Hoover debt moratorium. When
he died he was working for Franco German friend
ship.
The deep honesty of the man came out when he
faced the prohibition test senatorial candidate in
New Jersey. The politicians told him to pussyfoot