THE PAN-AMERICANS.

Grey River Argus, 17 January 1928, Page 5

THE PAN-AMERICANS.

U.S. PRESIDENT GOES ABROAD. FOR THE FIRST TIME. 1J AV AN A, Ja nua ry 16. For the first time in his life, President Coolidge set foot on foreign soil, when he arrived in the battleship Texas. A great crowd greeted the President enthusiastically. He and M. Machido attended tlie Pan-American Conference to-day, aud afterwards Mr Coolidge attends several functions organised in his honour. He leaves on return to the United States on Tuesday morning. LATER. President Coolidge addressed the PanAmerican Conference. He paid a tribute to the inherent desire for peace, manifested by the American public, and the absence of large military establishments in the New World. He declared that they all adopted the spirit of accommodation, goodwill, confidence, mutual helpfulness and consultation. Mr Coolidge said: “With each succeeding Conference, agreements for orderly settlement of such differences as .may arise between the American republics, have been extended and strengthened, thus making their relationship more certain and more secure.”