HAVANA CONGRESS

Evening Star, Issue 19772, 24 January 1928, Page 14

HAVANA CONGRESS

METHOD OF SETTLING DISPUTES DIVIDI'ID VIEWS. Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright. HAVANA, January '2O. The proposal of the International Law Committee of the Pan-American Congress to submit all questions in dispute between the United States and Latin-Ameriean countries to the International Court at The Ha poo is not proving acceptable to America, _ although it is believed it will obtain a majority support of the South and Central" American delegates. it is feared that this may prove the rock on which the congress will break up. Mr Hughes (ex-Sccretary of State), in addressing the Pan-American delegates at a dinner, said; “America is in Niacaragua in the interests of peace, order, and fair election, and .she will retire as soon as possible. Ho pointed out that if the United States cherished an Imperialistic purpose she would not have withdrawn from Santo Domingo when she entered that country several years ago. “ “ The United States is keen in trade, declared Air Hughes, “but the ideals of independence and democracy dominate its people.”

WESTERN RE PU BLJ.CS

PROPOSAL FOR TREATY

NEW YORK, January The Havana correspondent of the New York ‘Times’ says that probably near tiro close of the Pan-American Conference the United States delegation will present a plan lor a multilateral treaty for the submission to arbitration of disputes between the republics of tho Western Hemisphere on lines similar to those of the treaty, a renewal of which is now being negotiated between France and tbo Unir.ed States. Tho treaty will eliminate as subjects for arbitration questions affecting national honor and other questions excepted from determination by arbitral bodies in the series of agreements known as Root treaties, wove the United States have concluded with a number of nations.