Evening star., 1934-01-21
MONTENEGRO PARLEY SEEN
AS NEGATIVE "SUCCESS''
Lack of Hostility to U. S. and Hull's
Personal Impression Regarded as
High lights of Conference.

tevideo and have proved them to be
something else than the typical. platt-
tudinous recommendations of previous
Pan American gatherings
In other financial and economic mat
tiers, the Montevideo record is even more
negative. A White House communlque,
upon the departure of the United States
delegation. emphasizing the uselessness
of making any permanent financial or
commercial arrangements while condl-
tions at home and abroad remained so
uncertain. had forecast this disappoint-
ment. Although several and very m
teresting proposals on governmental
debts. banking. currency. inter-Amer-
lean credit, etc. were submitted. the
MCntevideo conferees found it easier,
and more agreeable. to refer all flnan-
cial and economic subjects to later
parley. to be called whenever "circum-
stances allow" at the Chilean capital.
All commercial topics were referred TO
another special conference to be held
at Buenos Aires, Immediately following
that at Santiago.
Peace Is Neglected.
But if the lack of economic achieve
ments is regrettable, the absence OF
actual political accomplishments is even
more so, because the former can at
least be accounted for by prevailing
world conditions.
In spite of the fact that various i'm
portant projects destined to supplement
the imperfect peace machinery now In
existence were before them, and in spite
of the tragic fact that the futility of
this machinery had been demonstrated
by & l6-month armed struggle between
two Of the countries attending the con-
ference, the gentlemen gathered at
Montevideo confined themselves to
adopting a resolution expressing "the
desirability that all American nations
which have not already done so should
ratify the five treaties or conventions
which had failed to keep peace in the
past.
We have described in a previous
article some of the features of the peace
proposals presented at Montevideo,
ranging all the way from the Uruguayan
plan of bilateral non-aggression pacts
to the Mexican peace code. combining
salient elements of all previous treaties
signed in the Americas, borrowing from
some European ones, and generally f1ll-
ing the gaps of the existing machinery.
None of these projects. nor the Scott
draft for an Inter American Tribunal
of Justice, nor the recommendations fo-
necessary changes in the constitution
and attributes of the Pan American
Union, nor q number Of other possible
steps which might have given real help
in the advancement of international
peace in the Western Hemisphere, re-
ceived the consideration Of the Monte
video conferees. They seemed quite
satisfied with an endeavQr to obtain a
few more signatures to the existing in
efficient treaties and temporary truce
they secured in the Chaco hostilities,
largely aided by the turn of military
events there.
Now, of course, not even this truce
is to their credit. the armed struggle
in the Chaco having been resumed. but,
even before the truce had expired. the
MOntevideo delegates washed snelr
hands" of the knotty Chac0 pr0blenl
and left it in those of the League of
Nations commission.
Certainly. this failure. alone. to stop
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