Abstract

Editorials

This article focuses on the socio-political issues. The Briand-Kellogg pact is formally in effect, and the peoples and governments of the world now face the stern task of building the peace. The pact, despite the strictures of its critics, means, or may mean, a first step in that great work; despite the plaudits of its friends, it of course means no more than a first step. Imperialism does not always advance by leaps and bounds. More often it flows, quietly and hardly noticeable at a distance, or even merely trickles. The latter seems to be the present process in Panama. Ever since the U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt despoiled Colombia of Panama by assisting a revolution in that neck of the woods and then recognizing overnight the independence of the revolutionaries, the independence republic has been under domination.