Evening star., 1942-01-13
6. ". Pan.American
Conference 10 Hear
Mexico S Ambassador
Dr.. Doyle and Power
Compony Executive
Also Speak Tonight

The second half of the Fifth
Annual Pan American Conference.
sponsored by the Inter- American
Center OF George Washington Uni
versity. will convene at o'clock
tonight in the auditorium Of the
Chamber of Commerce of the
United States Building.
Speakers and topics are: DR.. Don
Francisco Najera, Mexican Ambas-
sador Future Mexican United
States Relations; DR.. Henry Grat-
tan Doyle. dean of Columbian Col
lege. George Washington University,
Effective Inter American Cooper
alton Through Action-Not Words"
and James S. Carson. vice president
Of the American and Foreign Power
Co. Inc, "Tomorrow's Shape of
Things in Latin America"
Prof Robert Whitney Bolwell of
G.. w. U. will be chairman. and the
discussion panel will be composed
Of Dean Frederick Morris Feiker
of the univerSityS school of engin-
eering, Dean William Cabell Van
Week of the law school and Howard
Sanderson lie Roy, attorney.
Respect. Tolerance Urged.
William L. Schurz. acting as
Sistant chief of the State Depart
ment division of cultural relations
declared at the first session last
night that peoples of the United
vii GO,
live in mutual knowledge and re-
Spect and tolerance. including toll
ersnce of what each may consider
the others idioSyncrasies.'
We who occupy this hemisphere
will have 10 live together for long
time vet" he said.
Considerable is being accom-
plished in furthering mutual under
standing. although "one cannot say
that We have gained so many tons
Of good will or so many dollars
worth of knowledge and under
standing he stated.
Interchange of pubica tons and
Of persons. such as students and
professional men. are important;
parts of the program. the State De-
partment official illustrated
In reply 10 question from the
floor, he expressed the view the
United States is achieving greater
underst anding of its Latin Amer
icSn neighbors than are the totali-
tartan nations despite the large
numbers of Axis citizens or descend
ants of Germans Italians or Japa-
nese living in the republics to the
south. Only a small minority o.
such people are concerned consist
emily with sending information to
their homelands or those of their
fathers, Mr.. Schurz suggested.
Sees Youth SuperSenSitive.
Manuel Jose MendeZ Guardia |
Panamanan honor student At the
university. declared Latin American
youth to be "supersensitive' and in
clined to take seriously and often
too seriously incidents and actions
which the American people would /
he inclined to laugh off or think
nothing Of"
He expressed the belief the ac-
lively pro-AXis element in Latin .
American youth is relatively insig- |
nifiCanf. The student urged re-
ouired study Of Spanish in ele-
mentary schools of this country as
means toward better relations.
Latin America has an intelligent. |
free press which is an important
force for understanding. Joshua B. |
Powers. representative of more than |
1nn Latin American neWspa pers. de-
clared
Newspaper readers in Latin
America. in fact. are even better in
formed or world affairs than are
the average readers in the United
States for the simple reason that
their lives are more quickly affected
by economics and political changes
abroad and their editors print more
foreign news every day than do
ours" he said.
Associate Prof. Alan Thomas
Deibert was chairman and the panel
was composed of DR.. Luis Sigfried
0uintanilla, associate in romance
languages. and Dean Elmer Louis
KaySer.
The conference is open TO the
public.