No Agreement on American Colonial Question

Grey River Argus, 22 April 1948, Page 3

No Agreement on American Colonial Question

- ; BOGOTA.-April 19. A spokesman for the United-States delegation’,, to. the . ,Inier-.American Confeferiee' ' strongly • ■denied 'reports tliat.' the States. >has <; reached an -agreement •on the colonial issue with ’the ’“anti'-cbromal”.., ilatiri American countries.-' 1 He--declared, -first,that the United Statefi-'hhd reached no agreement on the.matter and had “reserved its rights’’ on every point at issue! secondly, the United States had made clear its./unqualified opposition to several, phrases in the original Guatemalan anti-coldnial resolution and the subsequent Argentine amendments, which would bind all the Americas to recognise the territorial claims against colonies. The statement was a flat contradiction to. the claim made by the Argentine spokesman,- that the United States and other countries interested had agreed on a resolution condemning in broad principle the existence of European ■ colonial possessions in the American hemisphere.