BIG AMERICANS

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 9, 12 January 1932, Page 8

BIG AMERICANS

Recent references to the safety of life in Mexico have associated the improvement, of. conditions in that country with the Ambassadorship of the late Dwight Morrow. It is a fact that Mr. Morrow did more than any Ambassador to improve the relationship between temperamental Mexico and her practically-minded American neighbour. While it could not be said that Mexican destiny centres in an Embassy however powerful, yet it is conceded that the personality and talent of Mr. Dwight Morrow exerted a profound influence in Mexico, and certain American publicists had begun to consider him to be in line for the United States Presidency. But death intervened. His son-in-law Lindbergh and his daughter hurried home from their flying trip in China, where they had been surveying from the air the Yang-tse floods—and the curtain dropped on Dwight Morrow. Yet there was never a time when the United States stood in greater need of big personalities. No one but a big man can be a Colossus bestriding a continent with a population well on its way from the first to the second hundred million. There was work in store for such a man on all sides—he might have repeated his Mexican work in China (now slightly amused at a "belated" American Note) or he might have carried American aid to Germany in, a more; human way than that of Owen Young, whose actuarial work on the debts has been negatived by the price-fall. "The Young^ Plan," says the "Daily Herald," "is dead." Mexican memories of Morrow live.".