LIMA CONFERENCE

Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 66, 10 December 1938, Page 11

LIMA CONFERENCE

U.S.A.’s Stand Against Totalitarianism

STRONG COUNTERPROPAGANDA

Maintaining Peace In American Continents

By Telegraph.—Press Assn. —Copyright. (Received December 9, 10.45 p.m.)

LIMA (Peru), December 9

A large number of non-American official and unofficial observers, specially from the totalitarian States, are attending the eighth Pan-American Conference today.

The principal item for consideration not on the agenda is the United States of America’s tacit plans for hemisphere defence.

How far the other Latin American nations are prepared to follow the United States “along the road to solidarity of the American States in upholding their democracy against any totalitarian encroachment” remains to be seen.

It is generally known that strong counter-propaganda is being formulated and distributed by various interested European groups against the United States’ programme.

Against , this totalitarian propaganda, however, are a number of questions outstanding between the United States and the variqus Latin American countries, such as the expropriation by Mexico and trade questions, including credits to Argentina, and the whole problem of how far the United States can go to guarantee by force the principles it will enunciate. The United States Secretary of State, Mr. Cordell Hui], however, in a wireless address before the opening of the conference, reaffirmed that, “We are determined that peace shall be maintained in the American continents and we are in agreement that any menace to that peace is a matte r concerning us all.”