The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1942-06-11
The Cherry Tree
Where We Hdtched Out
The Truth
MEXICO GOES TO WAR
OMEN OF GOOD WILL
PAN-AMERTCAN FEDERATION
INTERNATIONAL
RELATIONSHIP

RELATIONSHIP
Mexico goes to war, a partner with
Uncle SAM with not a dissenting vote
in the Congress that gave President
Avila Camacho his declaration of war
and his special powers for running the
war.
What a zig gag course history has
run in the relations between these two
countries!
Time was, not too many years back
when the two nations shouted ''gringo"
and "greaser" at each other, in hate
and derision.
Not so any more, brother, not so any
more.
And for the great change you can
give Franklin ID. Roosevelt full credit,
with his good neighbor policy but you
can't take away the fact that organized
labor laid the foundation and put down
the first great stones in the walls
JoSephuS Daniels was Secretary of
the Navy when United States warships
blasted into Vera Cruz and he was
ambassador to Mexico in the days of
the fruition of the policy of decency
and understanding. A strange road of
history.
The first men of good will to 90 into
Mexico from the United States after
the Vera Cruz incident" were men of
labor and what they had to say was
simple and honest. 1t was: I'VE covet
nothing of yours except your friend
ship; we want nothing from you but
understanding and cooperation wher-
ever we can help each other
Strange as it may seem, those simple
words We're believed and in that first
World War they helped greatly toward
defeating the German propaganda, just
as good neighborliness is doing today.
Labor in those earlier days had the
backing of Woodrow Wilson, but it was
labor that laid down the policy and
that carried the word into Mexico.
Out of the new confidence came the
Pan American Federation of Labor, 4
structure built upon mutual trust and
confidence, a great agency for good in
relationship of today between these
two nations.
| That the Pan American Federation
came upon days of weakness cannot
| dim, in history, the luSter of what it
| did in its days of strength, when Il
grave emergency was upon our nation
| and upon the world.
That it has been poorly nurtured by
most of its friends and knitted in the
| back by some of its friends is perhaps
beside the point in pointing up its great
role in laying down the solid rocks
upon which today's great brotherhood
in arms is possible.
And if the Marines sing about "the
| Halls of MonteZuma," as they do per-
haps it does not carry quite the old
time sting below the Rio Grande, where
| gallantry and hatredS are alike intense.
The story of the great turn of events
in our relations with Mexico has its
other Importance in the fact that with
out fair dealing with Mexico we never
could have had friendship and trust
fuInesS in either Central or South
America. We had to and, luckily we
did, build first at our doorstep.
X X X
SO now only Argentina and Chile
stand aloof from the solid grouping of
nations in this Hemisphere And there
it is not the people so much rs it is Il
perverSe and miS-aligned leadership
which cannot presently be oycrthrown
or ousted.
Perhaps in this Hemisphere we have
a pointer for the postwar world. There
| has been among these nations of ours,
all proud and some of them very SenSi-
| live, Il tolerance and Il fairdealing that
| has led to unity of view toward GER
| tain large questions of international re-
| lationship. The record isn't perfect, nor
| will it ever be, but it is good enough to
weld into II harmony of world effort
these nations that once had diScord and
mutual diStruSt.
| The robbery motive has gone out, .
with fine profit TO all. so it must 90 out
| throughout the world, after we have
won the right to live in liberty and
| freedom.
1t was the robbery motive that made
| hate; it is the fairness motive that has
brought frendShip.-CAIW.