Evening star., 1933-01-29

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Will the incoming admin
tstration revert to the old
patenalistic attitude OF Woodrow
Wilson, who, IN this respect, had more
in common with Theodore Roosevelt,
William. Howard Taft and Calvin
Coolidge than Herbert Hoover has?
Or will it follow the Hoover -Stimson
record, which has departed completely
from the traditions and principles OF
previous Republican and Democratic
administrations and regained. thus,
much of the good will lost on the other
side of the Rio Grande? And in this
latter case, will it endeavor to round
up that record and correct the few
shortcomings and mistakes still out
standing?
Only time can tell whether the in
novations introduced by Messrs. Hoover
and Stimson in the Latin American
policy of the State Experimentation
Intervention with domestic questions.
withdrawal Of Marines. recognition of
revolutionary governments in South
America. disavowal of the spoils of war.
etc.-or those paugurated in the
larger field Of world affairs will be con-
tinued by the next administration.
The next four years will tell the
story. But in the meantime there are
certain international problems stand
ing out today which, because of their
imminent seriousness and their signi-
ficance to the United States, will i'm
medfately require the attention of the
incoming authorities. And they are
not few in number
Foreign Questions Pressing.
As he Is indicted into Office, on
March next, Franklin D. Roose-
welt will be at once confronted by a
series of international questions Of
pressing Importance The ccnfe, S7ces
which the President-elect has hslA in
the last few weeks with Prenesnt
Hoover. Secretary of State Stinson,
Ambassador Large" Norman H Davis,
and his own advisers on fo<eign affairs.
testify to the prominent role which
foreign relations will play in the calen-
Oar OF the incoming administration.
Although the White House COM
munique on the British debt situation
was the only public announcement fol-
lowing the latest interview between the
president and the President elect. it is
only logical to suppose that the drafting
OF that one-page memorandum did not
take up all the time of their unusual
meeting.
The Sino-Japanese crisis in the Far
East; the debt defaults by France. Bel
GUM and other European countries: the
forthcoming world economic conference:
the disarmament problem: the tangled
european political situation; the recog-
milton Of Russia; the independence Of
the philippines are only some of the
major international problems lying to-
State
AS far as Latin America is concerned,
the questions which will demand con-
sheraton Immediately after the inau-
guratlon of the new Chief Executive are
not less numerous
DoWn IN South America two unde-
ciared international wars are in prog
ress. The Kellogg pact has. not done
away With war. 1t has done away with
oeclaratlons OF war. For more than six
months Bolivian and Paraguayan troops
nave been battling in the tropical Chaco
regions. The United States has been
paying an important part in the efforts
70. bring about peace and a solution of
the territorial controversy pending be-
tween the two countries. Although the
withdrawal OF the Paraguayan delegate
from Washington has momentarily in
tefrupted the peace negotiations the
governments of the other American re-
puollcs still look to Washington for a
peaceful arrangement.
Conflict Over Leticia.
In the meanwhile the conflict he
tween Colombia and Peru over the pos
session OF Leticia. the Colombian port
Selzeo last September by Peruvian ir-
regulars, is approaching the deadline.
besloes the economic consequences
which open warfare would have for
the United States. with vast interests
IN both countries. the result of HOSTILE
ties between Colombia and Peru could
not fail to affect her politically also.
Last year the State Department an
nounced that its new doctrine of non
recognition of territorial gains acquired
by war would be extended to the west
ern Hemisphere. Although the doctrine
does not apply to the Chaco dispute
where boundary lines have not been
settled by treaties, it does apply to
that Of Leticia. What is the United
states going to do if Peru retains
Letlcia, ceded to Colombia by the
Saiomon-Lozano treaty of 1922? Has
not the President-elect Just indorsed