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‘Pan Americanism
Is Not A Dream
Geographically the area of Pan America includes all
the countries and peoples from Alaska through Tierra del
Fuego (Cape Horn) with more than 25 countries, including
the languages of English, Spanish, French, Portuguese and
many different dialects from the Esquino dialect to the
jungle dialects.
These are some of the reasons why an exact definition
of Pan Americanism is difficult to arrive at. Many volumes
devoted to this subject do not even attempt to define it.
Furthermore, it may be said that there are almost as many
different kinds of Pan Americanism as there are types of
Pan Americanists.
However, the important point is not how well we can
fit a perfect definition in a single statement, but whether
we understand or not what this term means.
It is amazing how many people tend to confuse the
word Pan Americanism with what we may call Pan Latino
Americanism. For example most of the students on this
campus think that the Pan American Week, is a Latin
American “fiesta.” Instead, they should try to see that the
sombreros (hats), mascaras (masks) and other exhibits are
not a tourist side show, but an effort of the Memorial Student
Center to present the different countries, customs and
peoples.
A Panamanian thinker said, “Pan Americanism is not
a theory or a dream, it is a fact, manifested in the concerted
action of all the American republics for the purposes of
common good in their international existence.”
It is true that Pan Americanism, as dreamed by Simon
Bolivar, laid down the foundations of a united America.
It is also true that through the year, the ideal of under
standing and cooperation among the peoples of America has
evolved and improved, thanks to Pan Americanist leaders
such as Bernardino Rivadavia of Argentina, Juan Martinez
de Rosas of Chile, Jose Cecilio del Valle of Honduras, Rodrigo
Pinto of Brazil, Andres Santa Cruz of Bolivia, Thomas
Jefferson, Henry Clay and Franklin Delano Roosevelt of the
United States.
However, the present generation, seems not to realize
the urgency and importance of inter-American friendship.
Especially in this age when more understanding and co
operation among the American countries is needed, we should
not limit ourselves to having representatives to the Pan
American Conferences where the excessive oratory usually
takes most of the time. Instead, we must remember that
inter-American relations can never be in the abstract. They
are nothing but the sum of personal relations between people
and groups—business men, teachers, students and govern
ment officials.
The success of the Pan American cause depends entirely
upon the degree to which every individual desires to under
stand and cooperate with other American peoples.—Jorge A.
Inchauste, senior civil engineering major from La Paz,
Bolivia.
Your frienly, neighborhood col
umnist attended a journalism
conference over the past week
end in an attempt to improve
the fare which I am required to
write at least once a week.
I managed to sit through sev
eral banquets and boring lec
tures by different people trying
to impress us with the Okla
homa University Department of
Journalism, but I was awakened
abruptly during a lecture on
columning by none other than
Larry Grove who writes Poor
Larry’s Almanack for The Dallas
Morning News.
Larry read quite a column that
he had written on the subject
of column writing, and it so
impressed me that I found my
self wishing that I had written
that witty tid-bit. In fact, if
I can’t think of anything next
week, I still might write it.
Overheard from a member of
the Baylor journalism delegation
to the same conference: Seems
the Aggies have found a booster
in the band leader that was
playing in Pat O’Brians during
the Easter holidays.
A sip stood up midst the festi
vities and shouted, “How about
playing “The Eyes of Texas” for
the number one team in the na
tion ?”
The band leader put d&vn his
baton and said in a calm voice,
“What the hell do you mean,
number one team? Those guys
from A&M cleaned your plow.”
Some of the delegates from
A&M got into a discussion with
a member of the TWU delega
tion who shall remain anonymous
for her own protection and for
mine too.
It was late at night and we
were all feeling pretty good and
this young lady was having a
hard time getting her words in
line and then getting them to
come out the way she wanted
them to come out.
At one of the banquets given
by SDX, the professional journal
ism society, the Texas delegation
presented the people from Okla
homa with a plaque from Gover
nor John Connally making them
an official territory of the State
of Texas.
The Oklahoma delegations ex
pressed their appreciation and
promptly announced an economy
move to go along with the Tex
ans.
It is the nine gallon hat. One
of the Sooners told the group
that it looked funny on the head
but it was still big enough to
cover up the speedometer to keep
reporters from telling how fast
you’re going up a hill and pass
ing cars at the same time.
Red China Fortifies Borders
Against Threa ten ing Soviets
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HONG KONG <A>) — Red China
has sent substantial troop rein
forcements to Sinkiang and has
cleared and fortified a belt 2
miles deep along hundreds of
miles of the disputed border
with the Soviet Union, White
Russian refugees said Wednes
day.
The refugees from the re
mote region of northwest China
reported the two feuding giants
of world communism are waging
a propaganda war across the
border and tension runs hign.
They gave this picture: Soviet
broadcasts boast that some Sin
kiang border areas eventually
will be added to the Soviet
Union. The Chinese denounce
Premier Khrushchev, calling him
“a good friend of the Ameri
cans” and saying he deceived
China by reneging on his pro
mises of Soviet aid.
In their feud over the best
road to world Communist domin
ation, Peking and Moscow fre
quently have lifted the curtain
on their private cold war in
Sinkiang.
The refugees, who reported
they abruptly were allowed to
leave Sinkiang recently after a
four-year ban, gave what they
said was a firsthand account of
the struggle in one corner of the
vast region. There were 125
White Russians in the group that
reached Hong Kong after 12 days
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