18 OCTOBER 1935, Page 20

DWIGHT MORROW

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sin,—I should like to be clear as to what the late Dwight Morrow did achieve as an Ambassador. Sir Arthur Salter,

in reviewing Mr. Nicolson's biography, says : He not only • settled the apparently insoluble question of American oil and land rights (in Mexico) but . . . effected a conciliation between the Mexican Government and the Catholic Church." Of this agrarian problem Mr. Nieolson says, " it remained unsolved."• Of the Church v. State controversy he quotes Morrow after the " armistice " which h'e did effect—" It cannot be solved." Of the other two pro bleins facing him, Debts and Compensation Claims, Morrow n ever really touched the latter, and the International Comm ittee of Bankers shouldered him out on the former, and he left Mexico under the cloud of that defeat.

What Morrow and the American Press, helped considerably by Colonel Lindbergh's popularity, did achieve at the time was the creation of a proper attitude as between both countries. The essential point is—has that. attitude persisted and did Morrow establish a firm precedent for his successors ?—Yours

faithfully, SEA.°N 0' PAOLAIN. Killough House, Co. Wicklow.