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Leaving historians to decide what if anything was accomplished at the Seventh Pan-American Conference at Montevideo (TIME, Dec. 11 et seq.), grey and graceful Secretary of State Cordell Hull was by last week completing his leisurely journey back to the U. S. In country after country he stopped to eat the ritual chicken and soothe Latin American sensibilities with smiles and goodwill speeches...
Peru. At a State dinner given by Peru's President General Oscar Benavides, Secretary Hull beamed while President Benavides reminded him of his own handsome but vague remarks at Montevideo in favor of free trade. Old school Tennessee Democrat that he is, Secretary Hull knows well that present manifestations of the New Deal have definitely scuttled the Democratic Party's traditional low tariff policy, that the U. S. will probably raise rather than lower its tariffs. Nevertheless, smiling over the finger bowls. Secretary Hull said: "The toast is a tribute to the enlightened policy upon which President Roosevelt...
What its delegates thought of the treaties and agreements they have made, the Seventh Pan-American Conference showed last week by breaking up at Montevideo in a manner remindful of harridans struggling over cut-rate stockings in a bargain basement...
...Giraudy who had been the first to slip out of the Conference into the treaty room. "We are being asked to sign we know not what!" Second Chief Delegate to slip out of the Conference was U. S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull. His speech hailing "the Spirit of Montevideo" had just been cheered for five minutes. President Roosevelt had just cabled "You have shown our neighbors that your ideals and mine are not empty words...
Carleton Beals contributes a detailed criticism of the Montevideo conference, happily free of the old saws and penetrating on the real extent of the concept of good will. There is a salve, in story form, on the installment buying system by William Trufant Foster; and a very, very conventional restatement of the silver argument, this time called "Honest Inflation," by one Edward Tuck. The most valuable contribution to Scribners comes from V. F. Calverton. Mr. Calverton is concerned with a sane revaluation of Thomas Paine, and he shows that among the many ironies of Paine's life, the most bitter...