NAZIS INCENSED

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19824, 29 December 1938, Page 5

NAZIS INCENSED

IGNORED IN LIMA BOYCOTT OF CONFERENCE BITTER REPORT STOPPED AMERICAS' AGREEMENT FACING COMMON DESTINY (Eloc. Tnl. Copyright—United Press Assn.) (Reed. Dec. 29, 11 a.m.) NEW YORK. Dec. 28. Reports from Liirta state that German newspaper correspondents have protested to Berlin because they were not invited to a foreign press reception arranged at Lima by the President of Peru, General Benavides. They also state that they were -refused a report of the Pan-American Conference. They allege a “direct international affront.” -German and Italian official news agencies are endeavouring to make an international incident of the noninvit'ation to the reception. The Peruvian Foreign Office explained that the invitations were confined to Pan-American journalists. However, several French were present. The Peruvian Government refused -tb permit the transmission of a strongly-worded dispatch to the German Government in which Count Simons, on behalf of Nazi journalists, made charges of subterfuge and false explanations, and added that the noninvitation to the reception was a hostile act against the German Government. He alleged that' throughout the conference the Nazis were treated with marked contempt. Possible Official Protest The complaint was taken to the German- Minister, who is expected to relay a protest through diplomatic channels and possibly to make an official protest to the Peruvian Foreign Minister. The official Italian agency is lodging a similar protest with the Fascist Minister. Italians and Germans boycotted the final session of the conference, which closed on a note of accord. The chairman, Dr. Carlos Concha, declared that the Americas had reached a new epoch in their evolution towards solidarity. The United States Secretary of State, Mr. Cordell Hull, said: “We have stated our agreements in declarations rather than in treaties.

That is wise when the matters dealt with are of a general character and a political nature." He asserted that the conference had given tihe statesmen' a greater faith in the common American destiny. He added: “We know agreements that appeared to offer a foundation of stability and order have disappeared. In much of the world trust in any iorm cif agreement has completely vanished. “Might has stated it would have its way and would recognise no equal save might. We propose to express our common desire to work together as effectively as l possible to resist the spread of these conditions to our own continent. The utmost degree of vigilance may be required.” The Assistant Secretary of State, Mr. Berle, broadcasting at Lima, said that as a result of the Lima declaration the defence of the continent which the United States maintained through the Monroe Doctrine had now become the business of the whole continent. American institutions, besides territory, would be protected. Avoiding Narrow Spirit Stressing the need for avoiding a narrow spirit of nationalism, he remarked significally: “We cannot ask countries to sacrifice their European markets if we are prepared to close our own. We must do our share in establishing an economic workable result.” , When approached to-day at Washington, President Roosevelt and the Acting-Secretary of State, Mr. Sumner Welles, refused to comment directly on the Nazi press jubilation concerning what it describes as the “failure of the policy of the United States in South America,” but they expressed complete satisfaction with the Lima achievements. The president said he considered the conference a very great success. He add that the American delegation hacl accomplished what it hoped to accomplish. It is felt in Washington, even by those who would have liked to see a stronger attitude defined, that it was better to have a unanimous statement recorded that a declaration adopted by 20 votes to one, which would have ,een tantamount to ruling Argentine out of the hemispnere.