Evening star., 1934-07-05
PEACE MACHINERY
LAUDED At PARLEY
Western Hemisphere Has
Means of Settling Rows,
Institute Hears.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
UNIVERSITY, Va, July 5.-AH ma
tions of the Western Hemisphere can
live peacefully in continental frater-
nifty If the adequate interamerican
peace machinery that already exists
is accepted and used, DR.. Warren
Kelchner of the Department of State
asserted here this morning.
IF the system has not always been
utilized successfully, 1t would not seem
to be due to lack Of adequate peace
machinery, but rather to a failure of
the will to utilize it," he said.
Kelchner spoke before the round
table on "The Good Neighbor Policy
and Latin America" at the University
of Virginia's Institute of Public At
fairs, appearing with several other
speakers, including Francis White,
former Assistant Secretary of State.
Boundary Rows Discussed.
White discussed the boundary con-
troversies in the settlement of which
he participated during the II years,
from 1922 to 1898, when he was in
the Department of State. He referred
especially to the Tacna-Arica dispute
between Peru and Chile.
1T is not generally known how
much time and effort the American
Government has put into the peaceful
settlement of Latin American boundary
disputes" he said. THE United States
sought and obtained no benefits from
these settlements; in fact, it hardly re-
ceived thanks.
Communism for a second day held
the spotlight in the round table on
dictatorship and democracy" which
continues to break all previous insti-
tute attendance records. Today the
chief speaker was Oakley Johnson OF
New York, Communist party official
and managing editor of the Monthly
Review.
Calls Democracy sham"
bourgeois democracy. e., de
nocracy' as we know its a sham
so far as the majority is concerned,
johnson said. Democracy is class
rule, as Lenin said, much as ancient
Greek democracy waS-democracy FOR
the ruling class Just as only the
free men of Athens had democracy
while the majority had slavery, SO
under contemporary capitalism only
the owning class has democracy, while
the working class has wage slavery. y
He asserted the working class was
far more numerous than the capital
ist class, and that therefore work.
ing class rule would be democracy
for a far greater number" And added
that proletarian dictatorship was
more than an extension Of democ-
racy," being "also determined denial
of democracy to the still existing
capitalist class"
Sees Return to Gold.
DR.. Leo Pasvolsky of the Brookings
Institute discussed the international
aspects of the national monetary
policy before the round table on
money, asserting that the United
States, as a result of measures taken
since the first of the year, has indi-
Gated its determination to return
to an international gold standard,
although the new system still remains
to be completed by definite fixation
of the gold content of the dollar and
the restoration of free redeemability
and free exports Of gold.
r. Walton Moore, United States As
sistant Secretary of State, said last
night the program of President Roose-
velt was in complete harmony with
the best principles of Jeffersonian
democracy.
His speech was in commemoration
of Zachary Taylor, twelfth President,
who was born $50 years ago just 20
miles from where the speaker stood.