The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-06
Drive Started at
MOnteyideO Meet
on i. s. Policies
D 81 ties Oppose
Debt Collection.
Intervention

MONTENEGRO, Uruguay, Dec. s.
A drive to break down the dominating
position of United States imperialism
at the Pan-American Conference
meeting here was begun today with
the adoption of proposal to invite
Spain and Portugal to sit in on the
conference as mother" countries of
the South American nations.
A 60-page memorandum from the
League of Nations asking that the
conference endorse the Leagues pro-
posals for peace" in the two-year
war between Bolivia and Paraguay,
whose puppet governments represent
respectively United States and British
Imperialism in their struggle for con-
troll of South American resources and
markets, was read.
The Haitian delegation, whose Ia
Dor member issued an appeal on the
eve of the conference for the with
drawal Of United States fiscal control
Of Haiti, limited today that it would
ask that France, its mother" coun-
try, be invited to the conference.
The League of Nations memoran-
dunn, which is seen as counter-move
by Britain against the moves of its
U. S. rivals to use the present con-
ference to gain trade concessions at
the expense of the British, limited
that the Washington government had
blocked all moves for peace in the
Bolivian-Paraguayan conflict. Enrique
Buero, Secretary General of the Con-
ference, and former Uruguayan Min
lister to various European countries,
is leading the British-inspired move
TO bring the conference under the in
fluence of the League of Nations. He
is supported by Foreign Minister Car
los SaaVedra LamaS Of Argentina. who
has proposal the calling of Pan
American economic and commercial
conference and the revival Of the
dead World Economic Conference.
Other attacks on U. S. imperialism
were engineered by the Mexican and
Cuban delegations, the former OPP
posing the Roosevelt ban against in
Guiding economic questions on the
agenda and demanding a 6 to 10 year
moratorium on the $1,400, 100000 debts
owed by the governments south Of
the Rio Grande to United States
bankers, through loans forced on
those countries with the cooperation
of native officials who, like former
President Machado of Cuba, made
huge private fortunes out of the
transactions. Cuba joined the Haitians
in raising the question of U. S. armed
intervention against neighboring
countries.
DR.. Alberto J. Name, Uruguayan
Foreign Minister and temporary
chairman of the Conference, Joined
the demands of the other native
bourgeois-landlord governments for
debt and tariff concessions from the
United States, warning the Washing
ton government that continued in
sistence on its pound Of flesh" would
have disastrous results to the capt.
talist-landlord system in South AM
erica as a result of the rising resist
ance of the toiling masses to hunger,
unemployment and the mounting cost
of living He pointed to the des-
perate situation of world capitalism,
and declared that Civilization is GO
ing through a profound crisis which,
ii further prolonged, will bring in
calculable consequences to the social
and moral order" He stressed the
"imperious necessity of self preserva-
ton of the bourgeois classes to fur
Their emphasize his demands for con-
cessions from the United States.