The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1940-09-26
The Cherry Tree
Where We Hutchet Ou,
The Truth
o PAN AMERICAN UNITY
o NO SUCH THING
o THE NAZI PLANS
. WHILE WE Do LITTLE

1t is high time Americans began
to think about South America in terms
of some understanding. And it is
high time that the selfishness of some
of our internal groups was kicked
out of the road of national welfare.
There is lot of hokum being pass
ed around to the effect that we have
"Pan American unity" That is sheer
bunk. We don't have anything of
the kind, except on paper-very thin
paper, at that-and in the vaguest
terms that don't mean anything.
Nazi Germany is making plenty of
plans to carve parts Of Latin America
away from friendship to the United
States. Even while the war RACES,
the Nazi plans go ahead.
And we don't do enough about it.
We are doing something, of course,
but by no means enough. Worst of
all, we are kidding ourselves about
a supposedly existing unity. Hitler
isn't kidding himself.
X X
Some of our troubles grow out of
the exploitation of the past Some
grow out of dumb cluck diplomacy and
dumber cluck commercial policy.
We have been reading something
the firm stand Of American beef in
terests against importation of the
Argentine product.
Of course in almost any grocery you
will see heaps of cans of Argentine
and Uruguayan corned beef. Well,
Argentine beef is a pretty sore point
in Argentina and it may have lot
to do with undoing so-called unity.
u. S. beef ranchers will fight like
blazes to keep limit on imports, even
though they know and we know that
we now must import beef.
Argentina is becoming a strong
nation and big industry nation. We
can't expect ball playing when one
side wants to bat all the time
Argentina is looking forward to
commercial growth and to political i'm
portance far greater than it has ever
known. If the United States has
enough to worry about elsewhere,
Argentina may challenge United
States influence in the balance Of
South America and it may do so in
alliance with Nazi Germany.
Not because the Argentines don't
like Americans-they do, as persons.
But they also are looking to their
bread and butter.
Just why American beef interests
are supposed to be given a preferen-
tial treatment that endangers the
nations whole program is hard to un-
derstand.
And here is strange twist to the
problem. Argentina is opposed by U.
S. beef interests and is compelled to
turn elsewhere. SO she does. She
turns, among other places, to other
South American nations. She makes
(as she has done) bilateral trade
treaties all over the place. She takes
their raw materials. THEY take HER
manufactured products.
Argentine manufactures are branch
ing out tremendously, in competition
with United States manufactures. SO
United States labor will pay the bill
for our beef greed and short-sighted
selfshness.
X X
This hemisphere solidarity is easy
to talk about, not so easy to get in
practice.
We can dominate a lot with our
army, navy and air force-just now.
But that isn't the way to win real
unity that will last. There has to be
great bond of common interest
and in Latin America it has to be a
bread and butter interest as well as an
interest in idealism. That's the way
it is. We can't change it.
Argentina today makes many things
auto tires, shoes, medicines, tooth
pastes, paints and many more things.
She assemblies autos and many manu-
facture them before long.
Argentina, biggest of the ABC ma
tions, can become a friendly competi-
tor in commerce, or one not SO friend
! ly. Vicious Nazi-dom can find an
easy pathway or one closed to her
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