Evening star., 1937-12-07
JUDGMENT
Of BRAZIL IN j. s.
SCOREDBY WELLES
Attempt of Press to Map An
other Course for Govern
= ment Denounced.
SPEAKS AT CONFERENCE
ON PAN-AMERICANISM
Diplomats Among 1,400 Attend
ing 3-Day Session Sponsored
by G. W. U. Center.

by G. W. U. Center.
The Pan-American Conference
sponsored by the Inter- american
Center at George Washington Uni
versity today began panel discus
sion of inter American culture and
education after an opening session
last night at which Undersecretary of
State Sumner Welles sharply criti-
cized the American press for its at
titude toward the recent govern
>-mental changes in Brazil and indi-
rectly warned foreign nations that
the United States will not tolerate
any violation of the Monroe Doctrine
At a session tonight in the audi
toriun of the United States Chamber
of Commerce auditorium, where the
three-day conference is being held,
the group will take up inter American
law and political relations.
Tomorrow afternoon the session
will be devoted to inter-continental
news and communications and the
final session that night will be given
over to discussion of commerce and
finance.
Speaking at the opening ceremonies,
Mr.. Welles declared Interpretation of
the Brazilian "crisis" by the press of
the country to have been predicated
A"on false premiess and even more
false conclusions He cited the case
as an example of the need for "a
spirit of tolerance in inter- American
relations"
To Protect Monroe Doctrine.
Referring to allegations of dictator
ship propaganda flooding the CONT
nents, the Undersecretary of State de-
clared that ANY attempt on the part
OF non-American powers to exert
through force their political or ma
terial influence on the American con-
tinent would immediate tely be matter
of the gravest concern, not only to
the United States, but to every other
American republic as we'll An ap-
propriate action would undoubtedly
at once be determined upon as the
result of common consultation be-
tween them"
He added that if democratic civiliza-
tion represents The bulwark of inter-
. Americanism. it will remain unim-
paired by the fantasies which suffer
ing peoples in other parts of the world
have devised as panaceas for their own
momentary ills and by the propaganda
which emanates from them
For the more than l 400 diplomats,
professors, students and university Of
ficials that filled the Chamber of Com
merce Auditorium, hung with the BAN
ners of Ponce de Leon, Cortes and
many other famous explorers, Pan
Americanism was defined as a moral
union of sovereign states, based upon
q common will toward peace, which
received its highest expression in .ne
. Buenos Aires conference OF last year
Diplomats Speak.
Speakers, in addition to Mr. Welles,
we're Senor Don Manuel de Freyre Y
Santander, Ambassador of Peru, and
ranking Latin American Ambassador
in Washington Dr. Adrian Recinos,
Minister of Guatemala and ranking
. Latin American Minister here; DR..
Leo S. Rowe, director general of the
Pan-American Union, and Dr. Cloyd
H. Marvin, president of George Wash
ington University.
Mr.. Welles came. out solidly for
non-intervention in Latin American
affairs, saying that the day is past
when an American can insist on the
support of his Government when he
comes into conflict with the laws of
another country, but the Undersecre-
tary also pointed out that the United
States would support uncompensated
claims for condemned properties of
American citizens.
Ambassador Santander said Pan
Americanism is not loose and spine
less union of dissimilar groups, but "a
natural outgrowth that must be nour-
thed to bear its fruits"
Mediation Is Keystone.
No uniformity is possible, however.
he explained, because of the racial and
political mosaic which makes up the
continent, but there must be mutual
understanding based upon mediation
and arbitration Of disputes.
DR.. Recinos declared that PAN
Americanism to many people in North
America is but a LONG, sonorous
word" and to many in South America
formula for economic domination of
Latin Americans by North America.
Praising the accord reached at
Buenos Aires last winter, he said it
"reaffirms the Monroe Doctrine as a
multilateral inter-American declara-
ton" Pan-Americanism, he added, is
not contained in the letter of a given
treaty which may be revoked at any
time, but in bonds of mutual friend
ship and interest
The situation today stands as the
development of so years of labor re-
tarded by armed interventions and
conflicting interests, he said. With
the removal Of the threat of armed
Intervention has gone the distrust the
Latin Americans formerly had of
North America, and now q background
Tor positive progress is available, he
pointed out.
Points to Positive Peace.
DR.. Rowe also spoke highly of the
= 6uenos Aires Congerence as taking
up by the whole continent of respon-
sibility for peace. Peace. however. he