Evening star., 1939-11-15
Pan-Americanism
Needs People, Aid,
Cox Asserts
6. W. Official Speaks
At Meeting Of Women's S
Vote League

The opinion that pan-Ameri-
canism must have the support of
the peoples of the nations involved.
as well as the governments, and
that it cannot be achieved by view
ing the subject through rose-col-
ored glasses was expressed by George
Rowland Cox, director of the Inter-
American Center at George WASH
ington University, in an address be-
fore the Voteless District League of
Women Voters last night.
Mr.. Cox spoke on the same pro-
gram with Philip w. Bonsal of the
Division of American Republics of
the State Department at the
leagues semi-annual dinner meeting
at the All Souls Unitarian Church.
Mrs. c. S. Duncan, chairman of the
department of government and for
eign policy Of the league, intro
duced the speakers after the presi-
dent, Mrs. M. o. Lorenz, had ex-
planned that the subject of the re-
lations of the Americas had been
chosen because the league viewed
1t as OF foremost importance at
this time.
Explaining he was heartily in IA
vor Of what the State Department
is doing to promote inter- American
solidarity, Mr.. Cox declared that
more than conferences are required
to cement the relationship,
New Class Arising.
Today said Mr.. Cox, "a new
class Of Latin Americans is max
ing its way into positions of re-
sponsibility-positions which are
responsible for the steady progress
of the republics. To this new class
must the enterprising businessmen
OF the North, the intellectuals and
institutions direct their thoughts.
1T is from this class" he con-
tinued, land not merely from the
American and Latin American gov
ernments, and not from persons
viewing mter-Americanism through
rose-colored glasses, that support, If
there is to be such, must come"
Mr.. Cox declared that extension of
credits to Latin America is today
faced with the problem of Latin
Americas debts to investors in this
country. He also pointed out that
Europes war must end and said it
would be mistake to assume
that Europe would surrender her
interests in Latin America.
There are persons here in the
United States, he continued, who
sometimes wonder if the pan-Amer-
lean axis, revolving as it does
around principles on non-interven-
ton and the Monroe Doctrine, is not
revolving rather much in one direc-
ton.
Ancient Culture Cited.
People ask themselves, he added,
if it would be worthwhile to fight
for the independence Of Latin Amer
ican nations which. under the i'm
munity Of non-intervention. con-
f1scate Northern properties. This
question, he said, may have to be
answered before the pan-American
movement gains the desired impetus.
On the other hand, Mr. Cox
warned that people of this country
must not allow themselves 10 depict
Latin Americans as revolutionaries
and pointed out that their culture
antedates ours.
Reviewing events since 1893, he
pointed out that incidents of "in-
tervention or interference" in Gen.
trail America are among reasons that
good will between the Americas
had not been better established.
The policy of good neighbors is de-
pendent on a good neighborhood,
he declared. The neighbors must
like and respect each other.
Sign Of Progress.
Mr.. Bonsal, who followed Mr..
Cox, pointed to the subject Of last
nights meeting as one sign At prog
ress in nter-American relations.
Discussing the recent Panama con-
ference, he further viewed the
promptness with which the ma
chinery for international co-opera-
tion on this hemisphere had been
put in operation after outbreak Of
war in Europe as another sign OF
progress toward pan-Americanism.
Mrs. Lorenz, who was chairman
of foreign policy for the local
league last year. briefly outlined the
leagues foreign policy, substituting
for the national chairman, Mrs.
Quincy Wright. who was unable
to attend the dinner.
Earlier the league, at a brief
business session, formally adopted