Evening star., 1938-11-14
President Names
Landon a Delegate
To Lima Farley
Lewis Daughter and
A. F. l. Official on Unit
Headed by Hull
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ALI M. Landon, 1896 Republican
presidential candidate, will be one
OF this country's representatives
next month at the Pan-American
Conference in Lima, Peru.
President Roosevelt's selection of
his one-time political opponent and
II other delegates was announced
by the State Department yester-
day-less than a year after Mr..
Landon had pledged support to the
Presidents foreign policies.
Secretary of State Hull will head
the group. Among other members
will be Miss Kathryn Lewis, daugh-
ter and confidential aide of c. I. o.
Chieftain John L. Lewis, and Dan
w. Tracy. president of the Inter-
national Brotherhood of Electrical
Workers, an A. F. of L. affiliate.
Disturbed conditions in Europe,
Germany's economic advances in
South America and the United
States promises to help defend the
entire Western Hemisphere have
combined to give unusual i'm
portance to the Lima conference,
which begins December 9.
Common Sense" Says Landon.
Mr.. Landon. discussing his ap-
pointment and acceptance, said
last night at Topeka. Kans., that
it was in line with what he had
always advocated
mo matter how much we may
differ In internal policies" he said.
1T Is common sense and patriotism
to present united front in foreign
affairs
Last winter, when the Nation was
stirred by the japanese bombing of
the American gunboat Panay, Mr..
Landon telegraphed the President
that congressional critics of the ad-
ministration's foreign policy would
ioamstring your conduct of an ex-
tremely delicate foreign situation
Appointment of the former Kan
sas Governor was regarded by some
students of political affairs as an
example to nations which do not
countenance tWo-party systems of
government or permit presidential
opposition.
NO Secret Alliances
Adolf A. Berle, jr., Assistant Sec
retary Of State and a member of the
delegation, said in radio address
last night that no blocs would be
formed at the conference and no
secret alliances will be made"
The only object is to make it
easier for all of us to act together
as friends and neighbors, he said,
ito make our own intercourse easier,
to make our common defense more
secure
Other members of the United
States delegation are the Rev. John
F. O'Hara. C S. c.. president of
Notre Dame University: Laurence
A. Steinhardt, Ambassador to Peru;
r. Henry NorWeb. Minister to the
Dominican Republic; Emilio del
Toro Cuevas, chief justice of the
Puerto Rican Supreme Court; Green
H. Hackworth, State Department le-
gal adviser: Charles G. Fenwick,
professor of international law at
Bryn Mawr College, and Mrs. Elise
F. Musser, a peace worker of Utah.
Mexico Agrees to Pay.
The meeting, eighth of its kind, Is
expected to consider economic
affairs, consolidation of peace ma
chinery in this hemisphere, labor
matters and related subjects.
The conclave is known officially
as the 9Th International Conference
Of American States. The American
delegation probably will not return
before January.
Six advisers from the State, Com
merce and other departments, four
officers and assistants and six secre-
taries from the State Department
will be in the official delegation.
One possible barrier to a harmo-
NOUS conference apparently was re-
moved Saturday when the State De-
partment announced Mexico had
agreed to pay for American owned
farm lands it had seized officials
had feared the controversy might
impair relations between the two
countries and be reflected at the
Lima meeting.
Mexico will make an initial pay
ment Of slOOO0O0 next May and
additional annual payments of not
iESted claims are settled.