Evening star., 1941-03-02
By the Associated Press.

dor-designate," can demonstrate
whenever assignments take him to
other American nations that he is no
"easy method" student of Latin
American language or psychology.
A 40-minute interview with the
Vice President on Latin American
matters demonstrated that Mr.. WAL
lace has looked far beyond the pages
of his popular course grammar book
and has really tried to learn some
thing about Latin America. From
him came phrases proof positive of
thorough and fruitful explorations
into the affairs of his neighbors to
the south. Mr.. Wallace gave the
impression of a man who has dis
covered fascinating source Of
study and in all modesty means to
develop it to its full.
After plucking the immediate
outer petals off the problem Of
inter-American cooperation, Mr..
Wallace went to the heart of the
question. Abiding to Simon Boil
var, the great Latin American
unionist, he said, IT can't help be-
lieving that we Americans even-
tually will evolve some new political
structure based on the lines of Boil
ivar's dreams. 1t won't be a Fed
eral system, I think. Certainly it
will not be imperialistic. But pres
sure of events outside Of our con-
tinent have in the past, and seem
destined in the future, to bring us
closer together"
Outlines Means for Solidarity.
Mr.. Wallace said he did not con-
slider, however, that hemisphere SOL
idarity could be left entirely to
chance. He said means must be
found to bring the precise, close to
the soil" culture of North America
into closer harmony with the more
daring" cultures of Latin America.
These means, Mr.. Wallace consid-
cred to be within the grasp of
thoughtful men of the hemisphere.
He said they would embrace use of
ever-advancing modes of thought
concerning the techniques of eco
nomic, financial, political, social and
cultural collaboration.
More specifically Mr. Wallace re-
vealed himself as believer in the
policy of encouraging Latin Ameri-
can nations to industrialize. A
farm boy himself, he recalled that
the United States was an agrarian
nation with export surplus problems
throughout the '70S and '80s and
most of the 90S. It's standard of
living was lower and it was debtor
rather than creditor country. 1t
had great export surpluses of beef
a factor which in analogous nor
NAL peace times worries Argentine
beef producers, and which in the
current war situation has con-
fronted Argentina with huge un-
exportable surplus. Mr.. Wallace re-
called that similar war worries
aff1ict most of the agrarian Latin
American states because markets
have been largely European.
THE ultimate answer to their
problems he said, will be indus
trialization. 1t is bound to come to
them just as it did to us. Their
exports to Europe-now controlling
factors in their national economies
will decrease as they themselves
industrialize, raise their standards
of living and diversity their pro-
ductive efforts"
Rio Plata Farley Cited.
Pending this industrialization,
Mr.. Wallace said he derived great
hope for the futures of the Latin
American countries from their ten
dency toward solving their difficult
ties with one another. He cited
the recent Rio Plata Conference in
which Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia,
Paraguay and Uruguay sought re-
gional commercial equity, as an eX-
ample of an always underlying
trend" toward fraternal co-opera-
tion.
The Latin American countries
seem to me to be particularly
adapted to pulling together" he
said. They have a common an
cestry in the Iberian peninsula.
Most of them have their Iberian
mother tongues. These things are
bound to exert a pull toward CO.
hesive principles of economy and
government"
Mr.. Wallace said he regarded
these manifestations of general
will to help each other as the roots
of "self-helpful' Latin American
economy which would eventually
eradicate many current ills.
Argentina has surplus wheat,
which she now finds difficult to ex-
port to Europe" he said. "At the
same time both the United States
and Canada are wheat export coun-
tries. Yet there are millions Of
other Latin Americans who have
no wheat"
Brilliant History Forecast.
When situations like these can be
obviated and the Latin American
nations begin to find ways of dis
posing of their products among one
another, once they begin to employ
the sort of commercial co-opera-
ton inherent in expanding indus
trialism, Mr.. Wallace believes the
Southern Continent will enter into
a brilliant phase of history COM
parable to the fabulous days of the
Spanish conquistadoreS.
But this time, he believes, the
Latin American nations will be in
position to bedeck themselves with
their own gilt and jewels, garnered
and preserved by the clear thinking
efforts of their own advanced peo-
Piles, and the smaller of them will
not remain hopelessly poor and ex-
plotted by "conquistadores" of any
category.
To this end he believes the United
States can play perfectly simple
and straightforward part. He be-
lieves in loans to the countries to
the south. but insists these loans
should be thoughtfully devised and
so arranged as to permit the other
American nations to "buy out"
Basic collateral for this type of loan
he believes to exist in the fact that
"the geography and history of the
whole hemisphere works toward
inter-American solidarity" He said
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