Evening star., 1942-04-15
Sees Unity os Fruit
Of Pan American IdeuI
Writer Gives Views of Growth
OF Brotherhood Of Nations
In Western Hemisphere

To the Editor Of The star:
This year, more than ever before,
PAN American Day-observed yesterday
means a great deal to all the Re
publics in this Western Hemisphere.
United as they have never been united
before. welded together by calamity
which directly or indirectly affects every
one of them although they are not
actually all at war, Americans have at
last realized that this Is one America.
More than that: the actual and prac-
tical progress made during the past
two years in the direction Of better CO.
operation. better understanding, greater
Gated that this realization is not
mere theoretical slogan, but a reality
in every sense of the word.
North and South. we today are united
in the defense OF our inheritance and
constitutional rights which are based
on democratic principles. Nothing that
the great Bolivar could have visualised
could have surpassed the relationship
existing today between the English
speaking republic and its brethren who.
while using the romance languages.
nevertheless understand each other bet
ter today than ever before.
If we are not hypocrites, If we tell
the truth-and we shall tell the truth
here-it is of course to be regretted that
this understanding came at such
late date and in such tragic hour.
But the old proverb is still true. and 1t
is better that it came late rather than
never, and that, once established, 1t has
had such a splendid and immediate re-
sponse by all of the sister republics.
Pearl Harbor was the test OF the prac-
tical application of the blueprint the
policy proving to them and to us that
we are all good neighbors indeed. You
can best judge your friends in your
hour of need, and in our hour OF need,
when we were attacked at Pearl Harbor
December 7, our friends came promptly
to our side. They proved that these
good neighbor expressions were not the
platitudes OF a mutual admiration So
ciety, but a really workable new idea
put into action.
Now we are not only neighbor re-
publics, but brothers in arms. We are
defenders of this Hemisphere and all
it means to all the nations and races
who live In 1t.
This realization of the existence OF
a workable and practical good neigh
borhood is not only important to us,
but also, and even more So to the future.
1t is not only vital to us, but to our
children. For the children of today
are the good neighbors of tomorrow.
What we are sowing today, they will
reap And the foundation we are pro-
viding for the future relationship Of
this one America and its Americans
will be the basis on which they will
build their and our sister republics
future.
This Pan-American Day. therefore,
should make us feel grateful for the
proof we have had of this newly awak-
ened and steadily ripening friendship
and solidarity.
One Hemisphere. one America, Amer
leans all. will not only set an example
to the rest Of the world, but may prove
the pattern for q better, freer and .
happier civilization. Thanks be to God
that we live to see our relationship
with the sister republics and theirs to
us, coming ever nearer to the perfection
which complete unity requires.
FRANK HENIUS-,