American Legation, Tegucigalpa, Honduras.
Despatch No. 381 Dated: June 16, 1927.
MRCHIVES CARIBBEAN POLICY.
FROM EL CRONISTA APRIL 25, 1927.
Loans, naval bases, coaling stations, protectorates, annexations of territory, creation of new Republics, acquisition of potential routes, moral cowardice, debilitated patriotism, up to the fact of having invested the North American government with a certain faculty as Grand Elector, in short the growing absorption through economic, territorial and political control of our countries, accompanied by the great works of progress which undoubtedly it has realized, amongst which the Panama Canal is prominent, represents the spiritual and material patri.
mony given to us by Caribbean Policy.
Can our countries expect that this policy will disappear?
It would be a too remote hope.
The bonds which link us with the great coutries of South America are very feeble. The Argentine Republic counts today, through its renovation by European immigration, with a Caucasian population of ten millions, in which, though it be true that the Spaniard has predominance in its piritual structure, he holds in exchange a very reduced percentage in the formation of the race.
The Indian has disappeared.
In Chile, although there is yet a considerable number of Spanish Indians, the renovation of the race tends in the same direction as in the Argentine.
And in Brazil our language is not even spoken.
Colombia and the other Indo Latin countries, excepting Mexico, do not represent any appreciable strength.
It may be said that commercial relations with all of those countries do not exist. Consequently there is not, in our Indo Latin America, the necessary homogeneity