PAN-AMERICAN CONGRESS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 22 December 1938, Page 7

PAN-AMERICAN CONGRESS

CONSOLIDATION OF PEACE MACHINERY SOLIDARITY REAFFIRMED BY REPUBLICS AGAINST FOREIGN THREAT U I' A.--B.V Electric Telegraph—Copy right) (Received 22nd December, 11 a.m.) LIMA. 21st December The chief event of the first week of the Pan-American Congress was the unanimous adoption of a resolution accepting a liberal trade policy, including reasonable tariffs. In view of the fact that Brazil and Chile have been arranging barter pacts with Germany, the resolution is regarded as an important recognition that the AngloAmerican trade agreement offers other methods of trade balancing. The Argentine delegation is drafting a proposed declaration aiming at the consolidation of peace machinery in America at present consisting of ten treaties binding twenty-one republics. The United States circulated a draft asserting that the twenty-one republics reaffirm their solidarity against any foreign threat to American safety and peace. The Argentine delegation is opposing this as being too binding.