Evening star., 1938-12-08
Castle Hits POLICY
y0f United States in
Latin America
Swung From Arrogance
To Supineness, Says
Former DipIomot

Former DipIomot
The three-day Inter-American
: Conference, sponsored by the Inter-
American Center at George WASH
: ington University, will enter its Anal
session at o'clock tonight at the
!. United States Chamber of Com
:. merce Building.
7 Speakers will be Warren L. Pier
eon, president of the Export Import
: Bank; P. M. Haight, secretary treas
4 urer of the International General
Electric Co., and William K. Jack
: son, vice president of the United
Fruit Co.
. The conference has been discus
sing the question: Can the United
, States Retain Latin American Trade
and Cultural Relations Against Ger
man, italian and Japanese Compe-
tition?"
Critical of the Administrations
dealings with Latin America, Will
liam r. Castle, former Undersecre-
tary OF State, last night declared
the pendulum has swung from ar
rogance to supineness" in dealings
with those states, and urged the
protection of the American citizen
ana MS property abroad by every
means short of military force.
Cites Mexican Oil Case.
Mr.. Castle cited the treatment
the United States has received from
Mexico in the appropriation of
American oil interests and earlier
reputation of loans, and declared:
IN all this miserable story of de-
! spollation, the American Govern
ment continues to turn the other
cheek until one wonders how many
cheeks it has"
The most amazing" thing about
the oil situation, he said, is that the
Government of the United States
actually permits oil stolen from
our own producers in Mexico to
come into this country to be re-
fined and then, supposedly to be re-
exported"
This oil, the former Undersecre-
tary said, remains often in this
country to compete with United
States oil IN the open market and
undersell 1t because the Mexican
government has no capital invest
ment to worry about.
Scouts Fascist Danger.
Mr.. Castle, member of the State
Department for 10 years. secuted
the idea OF danger to the Americas
from the relationships and urged.
improvement OF relations with Latin
American countries without regard
to the Fascist countries.
But, he warned, I'VE must not feel
that to be good neighbor we must
give up our rights"
weakness in defense of American
rights is as fatal to goodwill and
respect, he declared. as clustering
and intemperate claims beyond
rights.
The Rev. Edmund A. Walsh
regent of the School Of Foreign
Service at Georgetown University.
told the conference that attempts
are being made by totalitarian coun-
tries to create a suspicion of yankee
imperialism"
Father Walsh urged as "counter-
steps making the Pan-Americar
: Union more effective agency for
cooperation by modifying the GUS
tom under which the United States
Secretary OF State is always chair
man OF the Governing Board. The
craftsmanship should rotate, he felt,
Advocates Liberal Relations.
He also advocated liberalizing hu-
man and personal relations with
Latin America and said commercial
interests should be intensified in a
serious and continuous manner and
not sporadically or locally in a hit
or-miss manner.
FRANK Mason, a vice president of
the National Broadcasting Co. in
: charge OF short wave, refuted the
opinion expressed by a number of
, speakers before the conference that
. German and Italian radio broad
casts are more active in Latin Amer
lea than those of the United States
: Here as an observer at the confer
. ence, Mr.. Mason spoke briefly in
defense OF the United States radio
programs. He said much progress
is being made and that the United
. States is actually broadcasting more
hours IN Spanish and Portuguese
than the other countries.
Arthur Deerin Call, editor of
World Affairs magazine, urged on
, the group the futility of an inter-
national organization for this hem
isphere backed by military force.
Members of the panel last night
were Harry Frantz of the United
Press. Franklyn Waltman, director
! OF publicity for the Republican Ma
tional Committee; Barnet Mover of
the washington Post and Delbert
Clark, manager of the Washington
Bureau of the New York Times.
Dean Henry Grattan Doyle pre-
sided.
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