CENTRAL AMERICA
FEDERATION URGED
AMERICAN INITIATIVE
(United Press Association.—Copyright.) NEAV YOEK, sth February.
Discussing the Nicaraguan situation, Senator Shipstead announced that he would introduce a resolution in. the Senate proposing that President Coolidge invite the five Eepublics of Central America to Washington for a conference with the object of forming a sovereign Central America Federa» tion. The resolution will pledge the United States to extend substantial assisfance in connection with the creation of a stable currency, a banking system, and other indispensable institutions, and special consider:!; ion in the field of commercial policy, receiving in return plenary rights to construct and a perpetual lease to operate an inter-oceanic canal, heretofore the subject of negotiations.
Senator Shipstead said that muck of the trouble in. Central America arises from the rather irresponsible nature of the Government in several of olxse Eepublics, all five of which have much to gain and little to lose by creating a single State.
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Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 31, 7 February 1927, Page 9
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