The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-01-28

siderable preceding bad manage
mcnt on our part, and some on
theirs. too perhaps
There's another thing we also
want, though It's important. from
the STANDPOINT Of the whole Pan
American outtit, 10 have the vari-
ous southern governments on gooo
terms with one another Indepond-
entity Of US, they quarrel among
themselves coca sionally II will be
principally up to Henry to smooth
out any such unpleasantnesses as
may develop.
Our y. p is delegated to look.
after this particular job be-
cause he's quite Latin Amer
lean specialist. He got interested in
our neiehbors somehow studied
them intensivelv. learned to speak
Spanish lhcll need TO acquire Por-
tueuese likeWise) and understands
the new worldly Latin tempera-
nent mach better than the average
Yanqui That's their word for YAM
kee
Between SPELLS OF vice presiden-
tial duty in the senate chamber it's
expected that Henry will pay Wis
its 10 the southern continent He
paid one 20 Mexico not long ago
and i wasn't much of success A
Mexican political faction stoned
our embassy while he was there.
That wasn't his fault. however II
was due 20 a row between Mexi-
cans themselves. ard we happened
TO get bit Of the overflow.
He Laughed 1t OF
It simply was one Of those rum
puses mentioned above as always
liable to break ont to the south Of
us. which it will be Henry's mission
to try to pacify. Indeed. maybe he
helped to pacify that one. II SUBJ
sided, anyway. Henry behaved ad-
mirably. He just laughed off the
embassadorial stoning instead Of
making a diplomatic incident out
Of Il. That's precisely the right
way TO get on with those nercu-
--- e r,.-.-
Az THIS very 1uncture Sltua-
tons starting to present itself that
may call, for plenty Of Henry's
best guessing.
1t appears that the Axis powers
are getting from Latin America
large quantities Of supplies they
greatly need to go on with their
war against Britain. Britains At
lantic blockade shuts off the AXIS
Latin American source across that
ocean. though it's said little cas-
ly portable stuff is transplanted by
plane. Bulkier shipments, how
ever. are ferried from the west
coast over the Pacific to Japan,
thence to Vladivostok, thence
through Siberia and European Rus
sia to Germany.
Britains navy is too busy on the
Atlantic and in the Mediterranean
to patrol the Pacific and. since
were supposed not to be in the
var. our Pacific feet can't do il.
To be sure, it's no secret that
we're opposed to the supplying of
the Axis via the Pacific and jap
Russian route And, so far as the
United States is concerned. we can
prevent II by policy Of export en-
bargoes In fact, to a certain eX-
tent. though not wholly. we've done
It, But we can I dictate embargoes
70 the Latin Americas-not with
out making them perfectly furious
and knocking our entire Pan
American good neighborly pro-
gram into a cooked hat instanter
And the Latin Americas show no
signs Of an inclination TO slap on
any cmharsoes. It's natural that
they shouldn't; they want that out
iet for their surpluses.
Wen an alternatives suggested.
It's this
Let L. 5. Buy It?
Let the United states buy up all
Of those Latin American SURPRISES,
leaving nothing to be sold to~ the
AMs aggregation
Now Latin America does produce
a few commodities that we require
IN almost unlimited quantities.
such as TN. coffee and some mis-
collancous tropical stuff In the
rain. though they produce about
The same things that we do. So
10" are we going 20 buy them out
100 per cent. dumping our pur-
crases onto our domestic market
in competition with Yankee pro-
ducuon
One answer Is that we might
hand the whole collection over to
Britain Yet If we did we know we
never would De paid for it. And the
cost Of buying out Latin America
bodily on top Of defensive prepar-
edness and weapons. munitions