Evening star., 1936-09-27
BY BRENT DOW ALLINSON.

President Roosevelt's formal invi-
tation to the coming Extraordinary
Pan-American Conference at Buenos
Aires delivered in Rio de Janeiro by
Ambassador Hugh Gibson, was
promptly accepted by DR.. Getulio
Vargas, the President of Brazil, in q
letter both eloquent and brief.
The noble words with which your
Excellency justifies this generous
birthday last February. met with the
most decided sympathy on the part
OF the Brazilian government and peo-
pie. Our tradition Of peace, the
preference which we have always
shown for conciliatory solutions, and
inspires our international policy al
ready assured in advance our sim
cere acceptance Of your Excellency's
suggestion, lofty in its aims and in
the way in which it was presented to
the other countries Of the Continent.
You can depend, therefore, on our
loyal and frank cooperation for the
purpose of translating into reality
this noble initiative, which is surely
destined to mark a new epoch in the
history Of the political relations OF
the American countries"
= Likened to the U. S.
Such was the beginning of new
adventure in constructive interna-
tionalism on an all-American pat
tern, q pattern opposed in spirit and
method of the equivocal methods OF
Europe, as parsded at Geneva. 1t
is significant that Brazil. largest, most
polyglot and democratic of all Latin
American republics and most closely
resembling the United States in its
political structure and spirit, followed
the United States into the war against
Germany. and after joining the
League of Nations in 1920, resigned
from it in 1926. The present engag.
ing Ambassador from Brazil to The
United States, DR.. Oswaldo Aranhe
who has served the federal govern
ment of his country as minister o
justice and the interior, as well a:
minister of finance before coming tt
Washington, recently declared to the
writer that Brazil looks with favor
upon the development of the new
pan-Americanism' and would oppose
specifically the proclamation of 6
strict, cooperative and continental
neutrality policy for all the Ameri
can republics in the event of anothel
war in Europe or Asia: and. in cast
of war on the American continent
against the aggressor, and to th'
assistance Of the victim of aggres
sion"
Wants Policy Defined.
II believe" he added emphatically
'that steps should be taken at tn
coming Inter- American Conference a
Buenos Aires to define such polio.
and to commit the American nation
jointly TO adopt it. For in proclaiminl
such a resolute attitude and policy o
pan-American solidarity, we shall bu
ratify our deepest political feelings AMI
instincts. And in undertaking TO de
fine our newer obligations and com
mon duties. consistent with our mora
treaty pledges, and with the enlarged
conception OF neutrality-meanlni
commercial and economic, as well a
political, non-intervention in alien con
flicts-we shall be fortifying our econ
omic and political independence o
Europe. and implementing our com
mon Americanism, as a potent mora
and physical force against war in tn
world and continuation of the anar
chic war system, which has almoS
wrecked Western civilization. . .
think that all the supposed profits o
war and the munitions traffic favor {
minority against the real interests AM
welfare of the people of the neutra
country that permits it. Your nev
American neutrality act Is step II
the direction of suppressing it. and
think that all of Latin America is pre-
pared to take the same step together.
Brazil, the Ambassador reminded me
Is a great exporter Of raw cotton, a!
is the United States, as well as of cof
fee, rubber and other tropical fruit
and products. Both cotton and, in ef
feet, coffee and rubber, were declared
to be contraband by the contendint
helligerents in the World War.
In facing the problems of the de.
preston, which has fallen heavily upor
Brazil, the provisional government ol
President Vargas has issued a number