AMERICAN PEACE DECLARATION

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22593, 24 December 1938, Page 17

AMERICAN PEACE DECLARATION

Alleged Victory For Argentina LONG-DRAWN DISPUTE ENDED Iranis PEtSS ASSOCIATION—COPTBIGHT.) (Received December 23, 10 p.m.) LIMA, December 22. The delegates at the Pan-Ameri-can Conference agreed on the draft of the proposed declaration of solidarity of the American republics. This has ended the long-drawn dispute between the United States and Argentina over the wording of the declaration.

It is an Argentine victory since it contains nothing directly critical of the totalitarian States. On the contrary the proposal which the United States delegation circulated was unmistakably aimed at the dictatorships, thus causing the Argentine to reject it. The mild form of the present draft represents a concession to the Argentine, yet it carries out the basic objectives of the United States. The text first of all reaffirms continental solidarity, second it reaffirms the decision of the republics to maintain and defend their principles and absolute sovereignty against all foreign intervention or activity, and third it proclaims their common and their determination to make effective their solidarity by consultative procedure if the peace, security, and territorial integrity of any republic are threatened.