The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-05-25
Observations
American Nations
Union Favored by
Secty. Wallace
BY Charles p. Stewart

VICE PRESIDENT HENRY A..
WALLACE is considerably critl'
eiIed for his statement, in his mi
tisl speech, following his return
from a tour OF Latin American re-
publics. that one OF Uncle Sam 5
main jobs Of the postwar period
will be the freeing Of "all the Amer
ioas from disease and hunger"
According to Henry, the deepest
meaning" OF our Yankee philosophy
lies in its devotion 10 the welfare
and brotherhood OF the plain people
of the world"
Being Just back from that trip
through the southern America, he
has their populations particularly
in mind, he specializes on them
anyway. He has taken the trouble
10 learn Latin American Spanish
and Portuguese, which are not ex-
actly the same LIMOGES as their
European originals, but which ap-
proximate them pretty closely. This
is the "globalony" that he has been
'joshed" for
However. Henry was speaking on
the occasion OF an Il Am an Amer
lean Day" in New York recently.
His subject was not 100 per cent
globular It was only semi-so. With
out prejudice to the rest OF the
earth's folk. Henry was addressing
himself especially TO our sides OF,
respectively, the Atlantic and the
Pacific.
President Roosevelt is the apos-
tie OF good neighborliness."
He Classics the neighbors as In
elusive of everybody from the Cana
dian border to Cape Horn-plus
Canada, II the Canucks agree.
Henry Wallace comes closer to
an AMERICAN federation. We will
be one gigantic country II he has
his way.
Now there are a few groups OF
countries that might be able TO
merge. Perhaps We and Britain
could do 1t. We are good deal
alike. France, Itlay and Spain per-
haps could tie up together, but their
combination would not mix very
we'll with our Anglo-SaXon outtit.
Russia would be difficult to absorb
in any combination OF other ingredl-
ents. The Chinese. though nice
folk, are pretty different from the
rest OF US. And of course it will be
a matter Of generations before
there can be any commingling OF
the democratic peoples with the
Germans and Japs.
That's what seems TO be the rat
ter with the argument for a single
world government which some
idealists are advocating.
surmise that Henry wallace is
globular enough TO swallow the
whole dose II sufficiently urged.
That is not what he is talking
about now though. We and the
Latin Americas are the nationali-
ties he is trying to unite (more or
less) and dsrned il that does not
look TO me, as an old resident be-
low the equator, like an impracti'
bility.
Our race and the Latin Amer
leans differ a trifle. and so do our
languages-considerably.
Our Biographies are congeniaL
nevertheless, and all OF us are SYM
pathetically democratic or repub-
1ican-none OF US very totalitarian
or Communistic.
Besides, we have mutually har-
monious economies.
We have fairly we'll estab-
lished system OF industry and H.
nance and the Latins are skinny
on them.
They need our promotion and We
reed their area Of potential activ-
ity to expand and develop.
We Yankees ian extremely few
OF us) long have recognized the
good chances offered to us in the
sub-equatorial new world. to get
into the latter to exploit II for our
own benefit, Just as was done in
carrier days in our own Wild West
but II was done at the earlier
settlers expense. They did the hard
work and we northern pre-pioneers
scooped in the profits.
They continued until the begin
ming Of the era OF Rooseyeltian
good neighborliness," and for a
short while afterward, while it was
percolating through the news world
lings' minds that Yankeeism was
making a legitimate bid for parti-
sanship with them. rather than for
unqualified exploitation.