Evening star., 1936-07-11
ENVOY FORECASTS
AMERICAN LEAGUE
ReCinos Tells Institute Road
lSPaved by Inter-Ameri.
can Agreements.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va, July
ll.-Nations of the three Americas
are ceasing to look to the League OF
Nations as a basis for collective Sc
curity and may decide to form a
regional league of American nations
at the coming American Con-
ference at Buenos Aires, DR.. Adrian
Recinos, Minister from Guatemala to
the United States, today told the
round table on Latin America at the
Institute of Public Affairs at the Uni
Versity of Virginia.
The is American republics that
joined the League of Nations in 1919
will find it easy to agree upon the
formation of a league of American
nations, said DR.. Recinos, but he an
ticipated that it may be difficult to
induce the United States to partlci-
pate in the discussion of this subject.
1T is evident that without the
United States no league Of American
nations could succeed" DR.. Rec1nos
continued. The road seems to be
paved by the tnter-American agree
ments which the United States have
accepted and signed, and much hope
is entertained by the sponsors OF the
American league of nations that the
present policy of the United States
toward closer and more friendly rela-
tions with the republics of the south
will help to draw them together and
will favor the setting up of new and
more efficient organs of peace, soli-
darity and cooperation.
Heath Also Speaks.
Speaking for the United States on
this same program was Donald Heatn
of the division of Latin American af-
fairs within the Department of State.
He discussed at length some OF the
problems that may be considered at
the inter American conference, such
as the organization Of peace, neutral
ity, limitations of armaments, juridical
problems, economic problems and in
tellectual cooperation.
The Pan American conception as
revealed by the aspirations and actions
in past conferences is dynamic one
envisaging the steady increase OF use
full international cooperation. To
be secure, peace must be based on sat-
isfactory economic and political con-
ditions and relations" Heath said.
DR.. RecinoS said public opinion in
the Western world has now become
conscious of the necessity OF revising
and improving the existing inter-
national treaties in order to maintain
peace and prevent the recurrence OF
war among the American nations. The
President of the United States gave
the most adequate form to the gen.
era. feeling when he addressed to the
other chiefs of State his letter OF
January 80, 1886, in which he re-
uuested them to express their opinion
as to the advisabilitY of calling an
extraordinary American confer
ence of their duly accredited repre-
sentatives to assemble in the city OF
Buenos Aires, in order to determine
the best methods to be employed for
the maintenance of peace"
Security As Whole.
Security for the productive system
as whole and not for special groups
is the real meaning of social security,
Winthrop w. Aldrich, chairman OF the
board of directors of the Chase Ma
tional Bank of New York, declared
before the institute.
We cannot have piecemeal secur-
ity," Aldrich said last night, "at the
cost of aggregate insecurity. We must
not aim solely at the security Of spe-
cial groups and neglect the security
of ali"
He analyzed the Federal security
act of 1885 as a response to demands
made after seven years of distress
when millions of our people have
known what it is to be unemployed,
to tramp the streets daily, to watch
their scanty savings melt away, to
lose faith IN themselves, to succumb
to dependency and despair"
Aldrich said that what those who
favor social security legislation desire
to bring about, as far as possible, was
insurance against the disasters and
dislocations incident to economic
advance"
But he added, I'VE do not wish
10 weaken the forces Of advance
themselves"