SEVENTEENTH STREET AND CONSTITUTION AVENUE NW., WASHINGTON, D. C., U. S. A. CABLE ADDRESS FOR UNION AND BULLETIN "PAU," WASHINGTON 1932 English edition, in all countries of the Pan American Union, $2.50 per year 2.00 1.50 46 An ADDITIONAL CHARGE of 75 cents per year, on each edition, for subscriptions in countries outside the Pan American Union. Single copies, any edition, 25 cents each. II U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE: 1932 TABLE OF CONTENTS Page A Street in Cuernavaca, Mexico__ (Cover design) New Avenues of Cultural Approach Between the Nations of America 77 By Beatrice Newhall, of the Staff of the BULLETIN OF THE PAN AMERICAN UNION. Midwinter's Eve in Brazil.. 103 By Anyda Marchant. Summer Schools of Spanish in the Americas. 105 Latin American Foreign Trade in 1930-A General Survey 112 (The contents of previous issues of the BULLETIN OF THE PAN AMERICAN UNION can be found in the READERS' GUIDE in your library.) VOL. LXVI = FEBRUARY, 1932 No. 2 NEW AVENUES OF CULTURAL APPROACH BETWEEN THE NATIONS OF AMERICA CERT By HENRY KITTREDGE NORTON1 ERTAINLY there is need for them. There can not be too many open ways for cultural knowledge, understanding, and appreciation between the nations of America. For, despite the very creditable work already being done, there remains a haze over the Rio Grande and the Caribbean which distorts the view from either side. A recent journey across seven of the republics of the southern continent has brought the writer into contact with ignorance, misunderstanding, prejudice, misinformation, and mendacious propaganda, all of which contribute to the South American impression of the United States. Equally disconcerting is it to find on returning to this country a similar concatenation of inaccuracies prevalent in regard to the republics to the south. The general advantage of more accurate information and wider knowledge is so patent as to need no argument. The North American picture of what we are pleased to call "Latin America" is too well known. The simple truth about the tenor of life in the southern countries, suggestions as to the impressiveness of cities like Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires, Santiago, Lima, or Montevideo, are met with surprised incredulity. The development of some of the nations to the south, striking as it is, has been too far outside the line of vision of the average citizen of the United States to have crossed the threshold of his mind. The traveler from the United States is still more astonished-probably because it is to him a newer phenomenon-at the prevailing 1 Mr. Norton, a well-known historian and writer on international relations, recently completed a tour of seven South American countries under the auspices of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. The ideas and suggestions which he here expresses are the fruit of personal observations made on that journey.-EDITOR. |