Evening star., 1933-11-13

Although he has sailed for South
| America with expressed hopes that
something worth while may come out
OF the Pan American Conference, Sec
rotary Hull must have viewed with
anguish and chagrin President Roose-
velt's eleventh-hour decision to bal
economic and currency discussions al
Montevideo On the face Of things, the
| conference Is now doomed to be little
more than a forum for pleasantries and
platitudes. After the World Economic
Conference fiasco In London, Judge HUI
| turned his attention toward solidfhca-
| ton of trade ties with Latin America
Economic internationalism" on globe
wide scale having proved unattalnanle
his fond hope was that the 81 Americas
might pool their interests in agreements
comprehending at least the Western
| Hemisphere. Mutually lowered tariffs
we're always uppermost In his mind
Meantime, our domestic recovery needs
having become even more urgent than
when President Roosevelt torpedoed the
London conference on account OF them,
Judge EIull now finds his dream OF a
pam American economic entente shat
tered too. AS matters stand, the Sec
retary of State will enact exclusively
the role of q goodwill ambassador at
Montevideo. The expectation is that in
consequence thereTl be some pretty
plain speaking In Uncle Sans direction
before the conference is over, and not
all of it complimentary In character.
Miss Sophonisba p. Breckenridge, the
woman member Of our delegation TO the
Pan-American Conference, belongs to
the well-known Kentucky family whose
name she bears--a native OF Lexington,
where her brother, Desha Breckenridge,
is a newspaper editor and publisher. For
the past 81 years she has been q pro-
fessor of social economy at the Unlver-
sitv of Chicago. An alumna of Welles-
ley, Miss Breckenridge has spent her life
in civic and social work. she has
written half a dozen books, mcluding
Legal Tender, Study in American
Monetary History" Her most recent
work is Women in the Twentietn
Century" In appointing Miss Breckin-
ridge as a delegate to an international
conference, President Roosevelt fouows
the lead of President Hoover, when the
latter sent DR.. Mary e. woolley, presi-
dent of Mount Holyoke College, to the
Geneva Disarmament Conference last
year, and perpetuates the Roosevelt
policy Of giving recognition to women IN
the higher branches Of the Federal
service.
European countries are notoriously
anxious to widen their markets in Soutn
America, and they are sure to leave no
stone unturned to reap advantage from
the temporary unwillingness OF Uncle
Sam to make tariff concessions TO the
Latin republics. Only recently Great
Britain concluded a far-reaching COM
mercial and financial treaty with
Argentina in the midst OF our own
negotiations with the Buenos aires
government. From now on, washington
expects that the British, French, Italians
and Geramns will omit no opportunity
to exploit the situation in Latin coun-
tries. if the notion takes root down
there that for the indefinite future no
trade favors are to be looked for from
the United States.
X X X
! Various reasons are advanced for the
delay in the Russian American nego-
tiations. but the explanation that findS
widest credence is that Mr.. Litvinof
was foiled in his attempt to obtain out
right recognition, leaving all contro-
versial matters to be taken up later,
through regular diplomatic channels.
This is what he meant when he said,
before reaching the United States, that
as far as he was concerned, everything
could be fixed up in "half an hour
The squat, smiling, shrewd statesman
from Moscow found that the President
and the State Department held different
ideas on that subject and were in no
mood for slapdash. haphazard decisions.
The Soviet commissar for foreign affairs
has also discovered, since he came to
town, that astute q trader as he him.
self Is, President Roosevelt is no slouch
of q bargainer himself. Recognition Is
generally regarded as being just around
the corner, but by no means on the free
and easy, unqualified terms that we're
In MIR. Lityinoff's mind when he ar