Evening star., 1936-07-06
LATIN AMERICAN
ACHIEVEMENT IS
NEED, SAYSDOYLE
Public Affairs Institute Told
Bunk Should Give Way
to Calm Analysis.
TOLERANCE REQUIRED
FOR UNDERSTANDING
Imitation Policy Such as Caused
Disaster in Europe Scored by
0rrin G. Wood.
Special Dispatch to The Star

Special Dispatch to The Star.
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va, July g.
A strong plea for more real achieve
ment and less bunk in the Latin
American field" was made to the In
stitute Of Public Affairs here today by
Dean Henry Grattan Doyle of George
Washington University.
Dean Doyle's address followed dis
cussion of infiationary trends in this
country and an assertion that Amer
ica's ills can be remedied through the
orderly processes of constitutional de-
mocracy.
After a critical analysis of our past
Latin American relations. Dean Doyle
told the institute:
Latin Americans and Anglo-Saxon
Americans are different in their racial,
religious, political, cultural and psy-
Geological backgrounds. Each group
has good qualities and bad, with the
proportion of each about balanced.
North American superiority finds its
Just reward in South American suS-
picion and distrust.
Calm Analysis Essential.
mo amount of fine talk will ever
take the place of calm analysis OF
scientifically collected data leading to
constructive achievements in the po-
litical, economic and scientific fields
as a means of building mutual con-
fidence and understanding.
ultimately education and a real
spirit of tolerance must be relied upon
to bring about the millennium of per-
feet understanding, which now seems
almost unattainable to those who try
to attack the problem from realis-
tic point of view. In the meantime,
they should do everything in their
power to counteract the harm done
by marginal people who set themselves
up as experts on Latin America" )"
The superficial" observations Of
some American writers, based on in
adequate information or misinforrna-
tion, and "our characteristic feeling
of superiority toward other races" were
attacked by Dean Doyle as being
among the principal obstacles to a
better understanding between the
peoples of this country and Latin
Americans. He also decried the ten
dency in some quarters here to dis
courage the teaching of foreign Ian
guages, particularly Spanish.
Motion Pictures Mislead.
Motion pictures. too. he said, have
contributed to mutually erroneous i'm
pressions of people in the United
States and Latin America.
Dean Doyle also asserted the United
States should adopt an economic pol
icy calculated to appeal to the intel
ligent self lf-interest" of its Latin Amer
team neighbors.
Orrin G.. Wood, Boston financier
and president of the Investment
Bankers Association, warning against
policies of imitation such as he said
brought disaster to France and Ger
many, said: THE most realistic cause
of the fear of imitation is the pres
ent state of our Federal finance"
Inter American cooperation is NOV
ing forward through agencies Of
closer contact upon tide of more
friendly cooperation between the
nations of North, Central and South
America, William A. Reid, foreign
trade adviser of the Pan-American
Union, told the round-table of Latin
American relations.
Provincialism Obstructive.
Less optimistic was Spencer Brod-
ney, editor of Current History Maga-
zine, who told the group discussing
international good will that the pro-
vincialism of one type Of mind forms
a real obstacle to better relations be-
tween nations
Fear of initiation and present record
low interest rates, Wood said, were
the two major problems affecting the
investor today He said low interest
rates are partly and fear Of infla-
ton entirely caused by governmental
policy.
He insisted that until the Federal
Government budget is balanced we
shall have continual pressure by the
Government to maintain artificially
low interest rates, which are an in.
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business ventures, and may well assist
us down the road to imitation.
Men and women transformed
through the moral and spiritual lead
ership Of the church and school con-
stitute the answer to Americas great
est need, rather than any new social
philosophy or political program, the
institute was told last night by Rev.
John Mcdowell of Philadelphia, Sec
retary Of the Board of National Mis-
sions Of the Presbyterian Church.
DR.. Mcdowell will lead discussion
during the next two weeks of THE
Church and the Problem Of Democ-
racy."
DR.. Charles G. Maphis, founder and
director OF the Institute Of Public AZ
fairs, has sufficiently recovered from
his recent illness to be expected at the
formal opening tonight. A welcome
to visitors will be given by the assist
ant to the director, Dean Armistead
M. Dobie, and the opening address
will be delivered by DR.. Robert Nc
Elroy, Harmsworth professor of Amer
ican history in Oxford University.