CONFERENCE MAY NOT BE ABLE TO RESUME IN BOGOTA

Wanganui Chronicle, 12 April 1948, Page 5

CONFERENCE MAY NOT BE ABLE TO RESUME IN BOGOTA

Recd. 7.40 p.m. New York, April 10. Observers believe yesterday’s revolution and rioting in the Colombian capital may have been directly inspired by Communists to wreck the Pan-American conference berbre plans for a comprehensive anti-Com-munist purge by the 21 nations taking part could be put into effect, says Reuter’s Bogota correspondent. Rioters were disorganised, but underneath there was a clear pattern indicating that what, had almost certainly sprung from an unpremeditated murder was being taken advantage of by other forces. The Government buildings were a centre of the attack and the conference headquarters were wrecked. The chances of the conference ever re-

Burning again in Bogota—except perhaps in some face-saving rump ses-sion-seemed remote today. The Government wijl clearly be unable to provide facilities for a resumption of full scale deliberations for days, perhaps weeks. A Combined Press despatch says : the Colombian revolution broke up | the Pan-American Conference today. | A Counsellor at the Colombian EmI basy, Washington, said it would be . impossible for the conference to continue sessions until the political situation in Colombia was clarified. I The United Press says Argentina is : withdrawing its delegation from the : conference. Three planes, it is re- ' ported, have been sent to take the delegation home.