St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1944-12-15
Eyes on Stettinus as Pan-American
Union Meets in Washington, d. CI
BY HAROLD PREECE

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When this is published leaders
of the 81 American republics will
be meeting in Washington for the
annual session of the governing
board of the Pan American Union.
Now this meeting means much
more to the colored peoples than a
lot of US think. Many of US simply
let our thinking stop at the Rio
Grande River-the traditional divid-
ing line not only between Texas and
Mexico but between English-speak-
ing America and Spanish-speaking
America.
But this meeting is the first of
two acts in a drama whose main
theme is the fate of that great col
ored Negro-Indian majority of the
Western hemisphere. The second
act will be the proposed inter-
American meeting of foreign min
listers. Who will be invited to the
second meeting may be one of the
principal subjects to be discussed
at the first.
Whether or not fascist Oily
white" Argentina is to pull off a
Munich in our headquarters-with
the colored peoples being the VIC
tins of Buenos Aires Dictator Juan
Peron as the Czecho-Slovak peo-
Piles were the victims of Adolf Hit
ler-that is one of the questions
facing the leaders of the Americas
gathering in Washington, this week.
Well be seeing what may hap
pen to the colored peoples behind
all the barrage of oratory and reso-
lutions.
We'll be seeing the stuff that our
new Secretary of State, Edward R.
Stettinius, Jr., is made of. Many of
US had hoped that President Roose-
welt would appoint that Number l
world citizen of the Americas,
Henry Wallace, to the key post in
his cabinet since we know that Wal
lace is loved in Latin America as
Lincoln and Frederick Douglas
were loved by our colored brothers
below the Rio Grande.
Test for Democracy
Now the test of any world states
man today is what he thinks of the
colored peoples and their desperate
struggle for freedom and world
citizenship in every corner of the
earth. For the test of World de-
mocracy is simply this: does it ac-
complish the greatest good for the
greatest number? And throughout
Latin America, throughout this
whole world, the colored peoples are
the greatest number in that sum
total of the earth's creation which
we call humanity.
What does Secretary of State
Stettinius think of the colored peo-
Piles and their dreams of a world
which will tear down the Jim Crow
signs in Africa and Alabama, in
China and the Carolinas?
Well know, probably this week,
when he gives his answer to the
demand of Argentina for a seat at
the forthcoming inter-American
meeting of foreign ministers. For,
1 understand, Chile will present the
demand of Argentina to be repre-
sented when the governing board
meets in Washington.
have written much of Argen-
tina's scheme to enslave the COL
ored peoples of Latin America by
building a great white-controlled
empire that would reach from the
Rio Grande River to the Straits of
Magellan. 1 have pointed out that
Argentine Dictator Peron was be-
ing supported by the German Nazis,
bringing money and machinery to
Argentina along with their dirty
carcasses, and by the Spanish
Falangists, storm troopers of Hit
ler's buddy, Spanish Dictator Fran
cisco Franco, in the Western Henri
sphere.
l have been pointing out all
these things because 1 know that
the people of the United States can
never win their battle for freedom
and equality if the colored peoples
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