Evening star., 1943-04-15
Hull Sees Americas
Setting Pattern for
Peaceful, Free World
Secretary Speoks at
Ceremony Observing
Pon-Amerieon Day
BY HAROLD B. ROGERS.

Pon-Americon Day
BY HAROLD B. ROGERS.
Praising inter- American solidarity
as success, Secretary of State Hull
last night pointed to it as an eX-
ample for the world
The liberty that we jealousy
safeguard as the right of every
American nation. great and small
he told gathering at the Pam
American Union. celebra ting Pam
American Day. lis the same liberty
which We believe should be estab-
lished throughout the earth
If the bonds of The American
family of nations had not been
strengthened. Mr.. Hull warned,
the Western Hemisphere might
have been torn to pieces, as have
been Europe and Asia"
Mr. Hull vigorously advocated
worldwide adoption of the good
neighbor policy as sort of globai
Magma Charta of the nations.
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Mr.. Hull's words were regarded as
of particular significance in view of
recent British and American Off
cial utterances widely interpreted as
meaning the small states must rec
oncile themselves to diminished
role In the postwar world and that
some of them might have to dis
appear as sovereign entities.
Among the recent utterances most
disturbing to representatives of
some of the smaller states was an
address by Prime Minister Winston
Churchill suggesting postwar estab-
liShment of a council of Europe
and a council of Asia" interpreted
in some quarters as big-power con-
troll of the two continents, Offering
little scope to the sovereignty of
small states.
On this side of the Atlantic a
speech by Assistant Secretary of
State Adolf A. Berle, jr., asserting
the day of the buffer state" is
over. caused new trepidation in the
smail-state group Nor was the
nervousness diminished by wide
spread unofficial commentaries on
the folly of "brandishing the At
lantic Charter" in discussions of the
postwar world.
Mr.. Hulls fortnight emphasis
on the principles of international
morality was typical of his earlier
pronouncements of American policy,
but one section of his speech last
night attracted particular attention
in view of its bearing on the post
war relationship between great pow
ers and small states.
Weaker Nations Protected.
That was the section in which.
after pointing to the principles
underlying Western Hemisphere SOL
idarity as principles which should
be established throughout the
earth he went on to say:
The solidarity developed III this
system derives not from pressure
by strong powers on weaker nations,
but from recognition and observance
of rules of self-restraint even by
the strongest We have no distinc-
rlon by which the strong are above
the law and the weak abide by pre-
cepts enforced upon them by greater
power.
Only by this highway of freedom
has the life of free community
been assured to the Americas Only
by cooperating in efforts along like
lines can we hope effectively to con-
tribute to the attainment OF world
peace and world security"
The Secretarys address was fol-
lowed by reading of message
which President Roosevelt sent to
the unions Board of Governors
earlier in the day predicting that
the American nations were assured
of place lin the world wide concert
of free nations which will constitute
the international society of the
future
DR. Leo S. Rowe. director general
of the Pan-American Union, read
the Presidents message. In intro
ducing the program, Dr. Rowe ex-
pressed warm thanks" to organiza-
tions throughout the hemisphere for
their magnificent observances of
Pan American Day, through which,
he said, there had been performed
an international service
American Day was widely OBJ
served in all the Americas by special
proclama ton of tie Presidents of the
q American republics, according to
word reaching the Union here This
was demonstrated by the number
of requests for material reaching
the Pan-American Union from all
the 81 American Republics.
/ Diplomats Attend.
Diplomatic representatives of the
| American republics were. in the
brilliantly decorated Hall of the
Americas at the Pam American Un-
ion last night to hear Secretary Hull
pay tribute to the most successful
| example of cooperation between
sovereign nations in modern his
| tory"
Reviewing the progress of estab-
fishing the good neighbor policy
through conferences at Montevideo
in 1888. at Buenos Aires in 1886, at
Lima in 1898. at Panama in 1899,
/ Havana in 1910 and at Rio de Janeiro
in 1912 Secretary Hull, chairman Of
the Governing Board of the Pan
American Union, said:
"On this Pan American Day in
l943 believe I can say that meas
ures have been perfected for the
attainment of victory in the vast
struggle upon which we are engaged.