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Miss Jkowne also confirmed our views that there is 

 room in the world for both centres, whilst she further 

 emphasized the fact that the Ama/.onas rubber industry is 

 largely dominated by the German element, and therefore, 

 we would add, that those who buy this rubber through 

 America are often helping the enemy. 



All this led the lecturer, as it is always leading us, to 

 the question, What is an American? Are the Schulzes, 

 Muellers, and thousands of others in the United States 

 Americans or Germans ? They are, of course, Germans 

 heart and soul, and so are their children and great-grand- 

 children, since we are told that the sins of the fathers are 

 visited (and reproduced) in the children unto the third and 

 fourth generation, and this is especially the case with the 

 German race in the United States. It behoves us, there- 

 fore, as we pointed out last month, to be very careful to 

 ascertain the history and reputation of those with whom 

 we are trading and entering into friendly relations, whether 

 as planters in Malaya or as dealers in rubber from 

 Amazonas. 



One day perhaps the last section of " The Rubber 

 Industry," which deals with the Monroe Doctrine, will be dis- 

 cussed in the columns of the leading London and provincial 

 papers in the manner that its importance entitles it to be, 

 and as it would have been had it not been for the War. 

 There never has been any doubt in our opinion (and a remark 

 that fell from Miss Browne supports our contention) that 

 Germany and the hyphenated reproduction in the United 

 States is gripping hold of Latin America to the utmost 

 extent possible, even to actual possession, under the cloak 

 of the Monroe Doctrine, supported by a widespread system 

 of peaceful penetration, and of establishing German settle- 

 ments out there, in a way that has been going on for many 

 years, and was never so vigorous as it is to-day. 



One of the speakers who took part in the discussion 

 remarked on the need of finding employment again in 

 South America for the 7,000 or more men that he knew 

 had come over from there to join up for the War. We 

 should certainly say that this must be done, and further, 

 hope that when the War is over the wise men of this 

 country, taking no notice of old-established interests here, 

 will give every encouragement to pushing, restless, but 

 reliable men to spread themselves out over Latin America. 

 W'hen there, such men must be supported with money and 

 prestige, and above all with marks of approval in return 

 for services rendered, which to many, and perhaps to most. 



