The Ypsilanti daily press., 1946-03-08
Intervention and Open Door
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I advantage and usually to the dam
age OF those whose friendships we
treasure.
Intervention is a hostile act be-
cause, as Halls international law"
so clearly states. lit constitutes an
attack upon the independence OF
the state subjected TO IT," Were |
an Argentine, shoild have voted
for Peron. underhny circumstances
and no matter what my personal
sentiments might have been, be-
cause a foreign country intervened
In the internal affairs OF my coun-
try and therefore attacked Its inde-
pendence. Were Spaniard. I
should today support Franco to the
hilt for thu same reason.
THE quarrel between the Unit
ed States and the Argentine seems
to be without foundation; nothing
that that new titan OF diplomacy,
sprung out OF Chilean mines.
Spruille Braden, has said about
the Argentine. does not apply even
more fully to Soviet Russia. The
effective factors In the argument,
the electors OF the Argentine, are
giving the ebulhent and quixotic
Braden the grand heave-ho.
AS for Frarco's Spain, the con-
tention seems TO be that we are
ideologically different and that
Franco once courted Hitler, as also
Stain once did. N its younger
and smarter days, before the new
wisdom sprouted in Washington, as
far back as 1897. a treaty was
signed between the United States
and Tropill containing the follow
ing:
"As the government Of the Unit.
ed States OF America Is not In any
sense founded on the Christian
religion; as 1t has in itself no char
acter OF enmity against the laws.
religion, or tranquility OF mussel-
men; and as the said states never
have entered into any way or act
OF hostility against any mehomi-
tan nation, II is declared by the par
ties, that 40 pretext arising from
religious opinions shall ever pro
duce an interruption OF the har.
mony existing between the two
countries"
Generally speaking this has been
American policy from that date to
1914, with certain astonishing ex-
ceptions. In 1917. OF course. this
country intervened TO make the
world safe for democracy: this
country has ever since been carry
ing the full load OF the economic
and political disaster that has
befallen Europe.
John Adams, in HIS diary, re-
ports:
"'You are afraid says Mr.. Os-
wald today. of being made the
tools Of the powers OF Europe
Indeed am says I. What pow.
ers? said he. "All OF them" said I.
1T is obvious that all the powers
OF Europe will be continually
maneuvering with us to work us
into their real or imaginary bal
anceJ Of power. They win all wish
to make OF us a make-weight
candle... but | think It ought to
be our rule not to meddle. -"
And that precisely is what is now
happening TO us in Spain. Soviet
Russia desires civil war in Spain.
The Communists are the dominant
political party In France. The
French government, to keep the
Communists from throwing it out
as they forced De Gaulle out,
pursues policy toward Spain sat
isfactory to Soviet Russia. The
United States, having grovelled in
the dust and eaten crow to please
the despot OF the Kremlin and to
save the face OF Franklin d. Roose-
velt. Is about to revise its attitude
toward Russian aggressions, thefts,
espionage and general immortality,
so that 1t sounds tough TO the Amer
lean people but Is normal Byrnes
In reality. II is therefore willing
TO knock Franco down because
What the hell!"
So, we intervene in Spain by
stimulating civil war. But in Man
churia, the United States goes
back to the "open door policy" OF
John Hay and to the moral prlnci-
pies OF the nine power treaty and