The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-11

not do IN the unparalleled CUBAN CT
That the crisis is fundamental
generally is admitted in Latin Anne
mands a new and different solution.
The view Of informed Latin Amer
leans here is that Cuba's present
difficulties are mainly the result OF
two things:
First. the people are in the grip
Of an unprecedentedly bad economic
situation, due in large part to Amer
lean exploitation Of Cuban sugar
and other interests.
Second. a new generation Of Gu
bans educated in this country and
abroad. has arrived. Sick of the
old regime with its matter-Of-fact
acceptance Of graft and corruption.
and its practice Of One-man or
family rule Of the island, the new
school is demanding a new deal
Of its own.
Crisis Is Faced
That this new deal may take
time commonly is accepted. Ar
gentina's polite warning to this
country to that effect, and that
there should be no armed inter-
vention in Cuba during the period
of transition, unless complete an
archy should develop. has the sup
port of the other nineteen republics
south of the Rio Grande.
Unless the United States helps
Cuba in this supreme hour, as our
southern neighbors see it, a serious
break threatens between us and
them.
The sixth Pan-American con-
gress at Havana in 1923 was all but
wrecked by United States interven-
ton in Nicaragua. It required all
the tact and diplomacy of the able
Charles Evans Hughes. then secre-
tary of state, to save It.
Even he could not do more than
stave off the crisis 1t was left for
settlement at the forthcoming
seventh congress at Montevideo next
December.
Intervention Would be Fatal
Prepared by the American Instl-
tute of International Law, new
doctrine has been drawn up, barring
military intervention by one Amerl-
can state in the affairs of another,
save in direct emergency, and then
only by what would amount TO IN
ternational. or Pan-American, man
date.
Intervention in Cuba at this time
would spoil everything, the writer
has been told by some of this coun-
trv's most ardent Latin American
friends here.
If patience is exercised, Latin
American republics will go along
with the United States. AS conf
dence in President Roosevelt's new
policy of the good neighbor' grows
Pan-American cooperation Will IN
crease.
Mr.. Roosevelt is believed to be
waiting only for the setting up OF
a stable government at Havana 10
GO TO the aid of the Cuban people
Four steps confidently are antici-
pated by those who have been called
into conference at the White House.
Must Relieve Want
First. something will have to be
done to relieve widespread want
among so per cent of the Cuban
population. Some are facing starva-
ton.
Second. Cubas desperate economic
Might will have to be remedied. AS
if was the United States policy to
encourage Cubans to devote prac-
ticallv the entire island TO the grow
ing of sugar. this COuntry's sugar
policy will have to be changed.
Third. the Cuban masses must
be put back on the land, with plots
of their own to cultivate. Driven of
the soil by the process of constantly
charging the sugar plantations, half
the people have become day Ia
borers. dependent upon whatever
the big sugar estates desire, or can
afford to pay.
Interest Must BE Cut
Fourth. Cuba's national debt. par
ticularly the foreign debt, must be
recast. with vastly lower interest
rates. Without this Cuba never can
pay out
Aid Of the United States in
carrying ont this program is re-
r-or5ed aS ir11r1er.s tive If fOrthCCm-
ing Latin Americans here assert,
1t will put P.n-Amerlcan relations
on new plane. If denied-and
especially If there is armed inter
vention-the fat viii be in the fire.
A world battle for trade IS on. II
is pointed cut. and tine effect would
be for Latin America to turn once
more from tire United States 70
favor Europe md Japan.