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0 An old end hated pkase "Yankee imperialism" was swept out of the language of the Americas of Franklin Roosevelt on his first inaugural day, Herch 4, 1933, when he seid: "In the field of world policy I would dedicate . this nation to the policy of the good neighbor". Franklin Roosevelt acted on this policy by giving the people of Cube. economic aid and freeing them from the hateful terms of the Platt amendment thich had made Cuba virtually a subject nation. lie compelled the National City Bank of New York to surrender its domination of Haiti. He ended a thirty-year old treaty under which the United States had exercised domination over Paname. These are only a few of the things which Franklin Roosevelt did to give effect to the Good Neighbor policy. But The Good Neighbor died with his work unfinished, and now his policy is being betrayed. At the Pen-hmericon conference at Bogota the hard-pressed nations of South America seek economic aid, but they have been told that their pleas must be. shurted aside until our European comnitments are fulfilled. They have been told that they shoulc be groteful to us for spending billions for arms; that it is protection for then. kut it isn't guns, and bombers, anu atom bombs which will protect the people of Jatin America. It isn't guns, and bombers, and atom bombs which will wipe out tie problems whicn can cause the growth of a stvcrg communist movement, . In Letin-Amarica, as in the rest of the world, we must substitute tractors for tanks, and plors for guns. With Mexico desperate for smerican aid to develop its economy, it is again bec-ming e fit victim for the oil trusts. Ke are told that “highly secret negotiaizons" are under way to restore the grip of American oil companies on Mexican oil resources. perenne are me - . —— cguwen mange eee ee et