AID FROM UNCLE SAM

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 314, 27 March 1928, Page 1

AID FROM UNCLE SAM

NICARAGUAN ELECTION SUPERVISION DEMONSTRATORS PARADE By Cable.—Presa Association. — Copyright. NEW YORK, Sunday. A message from Managua, Nicaragua, states that on the instructions of the central committee of the Liberal Party, demonstrations were held throughout the country to-day in favour of the supervision by the United States of the Presidential election. The paraders in the capital cheered wildly in front of the United States Legation, and listened to speeches before the National Palace. One young Conservative attempted to organise a counter-demonstration, but he was quickly arrested.—A. and N.Z. Recently the history of most of LatinAmerica has been one of continuous violence or of long-term dictatorships. Venezuela itself has been described as “a country with a Government of cliques tempered by revolution.” The United States has endeavoured by mediation and arbitration to give some of the more northerly States a settled government, and, for her own benefit, to exploit their trade and natural products. In so doing she claims to have conferred on them “many of the blessings of civilisation.” Latin-Americans in general are not hostile to the United States, but they point out that American intervention in the internal affairs of Central America does not serve any purpose other than to humiliate the people. They say that the benefits they receive are not a fair exchange for having presidents not of their own choosing forced upon them, for being forced to make unwelcome treaties, or for being forced to accept onerous loans. , . .. But lately the unpopularity of the United States has found vent in certain outbreaks of bitterness. The Union of Cenrral and South America and the Antilles has been spreading propaganda in favour of an all-Latin-American boycott against United States goods. This propaganda has been supported in many of the States by prominent speakers and politicians, notably Blanco Fombona, of Venezuela, and old hymns of hate have been dug up to sing against the enemy of the north at political meetings.