Evening star., 1934-07-02
LATIN AMERICAN
!. POLICY PRAISED.
President and Hull Win Con.
fidence, Say Institute
Speakers.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
UNIVERSITY, Va. July 2.--PreSl- |
dent Roosevelt and Secretary of State |
Hull were praised for their attitude |
OF understanding toward Latin Amer
'ica by Dr. Carlos Davila, former AM
bassador from Chile, and by Prof. |
Paul V. Shaw of Columbia University.
who spoke here today.
Thank God" said Mr.. Davtla.
that President Roosevelt in his |
y epoch-making address before the Will
son Foundation on December %, def
nitely pronounced imperialism and |
intervention dead as policies of the (
United States, and that Secretary |
Hull declared at the Montivideo Con- |
ference that the internal affairs. of !
Latin American nations will be, from |
now on, none of your business"
Both speakers, who appeared be- /
fore the round table on the good |
peighbor policy with Latin America"
at the University Of Virginias Insti
tute of Public Affairs saw in the !
Caribbean policy of the present ad- |
ministration the supreme test of /
whether or not the good will of Gen.
tral and South American nations to- !
ward the United States will increase. |
40 Years Mistakes.
President Roosevelt's complete |
rectifcation Of 40 years of mistakes |
of your policies toward Latin America |
came at the right moment" Mr.. |
Davila said. But did President |
Roosevelt have the caribbean policy !
also in mind when he proclaimed in |
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intervention? Maybe he did
The problems in our relations with |
this country are not only that we |
don't know each other the problem
is that we know the worst of each |
other. If a feeling of confidence !
could be built there and here there |
would be no need for discussions
about American imperialism or inter-
vention. about the Monroe Doctrine
or the Caribbean policy"
Speech Has Effect.
"Roosevelt's speech about non-in-
tervention carried conviction because
the United States did not intervene
after it was pronounced, he said
"Scrapping of our Central American
recognition policy has strengthened
tude. Removing our Marines has
increased our prestige in all Latin
America And abolition of the Plstt
amendment was one of the greatest
moves made by the administration in
regaining confidence.
=. I'VE are far from achieving the
trust and good will which we seek.
But opinion is slowly changing. In
almost every instance we are Witness
ing reversal of the policies and prac-
tices which alienated the faith and
friendship of Latin America"
DR.. Harry Elmer Barnes. historian.
professor and author. called President
Franklin D. Roosevelt the last hope
of democracy and capitalism. as he
addressed a round-table forum of the
Institute.
Speaking on Dictatorship and
Democracy" DR.. Barnes said If the
new deal collapses we have the stark
reality of Fascism and then Com
Inurism staring us in the face.
1T is the new deal, castor oil or
the firing squad. If the new deal
fails" he continued, there will be
neither Democrats nor Republicans in
1910 Partisan controversy IN this
country today-at least Democrat-Re-
publican controversies like two men
angrily debating about a heavy dew
in the path of the JohnstoWn flood"
Quotes From Jefferson.
D.. Barnes quoted from Thomas
jefferson, founder of the University
of Virginia, which is sponsoring the
institute, in iustiflca ton of the brain
trust" He said that some might see
grim irony in a group of American
historians and publicists gathered at
Jefferson's university over a Fourth of
July in solemn deliberation about the
collapse of democracy and individual
istic capitalism.
But am not sure that it is Incon-
sistent and paradoxlcal," DR.. Barnes
said. "For, although Jefferson is one
of the great names associated with the
democratic tradition, he never had
my faith in that crude legalitarian or
nose counting democracy which has
now run its course in the United
States. He believed that government
must be in the hands of able experts
Jefferson believed that the common
people might be trusted to recognize
their intellectual superiors and to place
them in positions of government. but
he never believed in the capacity of
the rabble to govern"
Constitution Maintained.
1T is hard to imagine an American
Napoleon or M. MuSSolini Our vast
continent has fortunately maintained
its constitution, not as one concen-
trateo republic, but as many United
States. We still realize the danger
of excessive concentration.
The round table conference on
''home ownership and the country
church" began this morning with
talk on large-scale farming and the
problems it creates. DR.. G. w. Foster,
head of agricultural economics at
North Carolina State College, de-
livered the address.
The Christian Church must save
humanity from "the abyss of material
ruin and spiritual despair" with which
1t is confronted. Rev. Dr. John Nc
Dowell, former moderator of the Pres
byterian Church of the u. S.tA said
In opening the round table conference
on the function of the church in mod
ern life
There never was an hour when the
Nation needed the inspiration and
guidance of a compelling religious
faith more than in this hour" he said
land for such a faith the Nation has
q right to look to the Christian
church. She holds in her keep