ARGENTINE VICTORY

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 82, Issue 305, 24 December 1938, Page 7

ARGENTINE VICTORY

THE LIMA CONFERENCE TEXT OF DECLARATION [By Telegraph—Prera Association —Copyrisrhtl Received Dec. 23, 10.30 p.m. LIMA, Dec. 22. Delegates to the Pan-American conference agreed on a draft of the proposed declaration of solidarity of the American republics, ending the long, drawn American-Argentine dispute over the wording of such a declaration. It is an Argentine victory, since it contains nothing directly critical of the totalitarian States. On the contrary, the proposal which the United States delegation circulated was unmistakably aimed at the dictatorships, causing the Argentine’s rejection. The present draft is in a mild form and represents a concession to the Argentine, yet it carries out the basic United States objectives. The text first of all reaffirms continental solidarity; secondly it reaffirms the republics’ decision to maintain and defend their principles and absolute sovereignty against all foreign intervention or activity; thirdly it proclaims common interest in and determination to make effective their solidarity by consultative procedure if the peace, security or territorial integrity of any of the republics is threatened.