AMERICAN REPUBLICS.

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16155, 8 March 1918, Page 6

AMERICAN REPUBLICS.

.— MOVEMENT FOR UNION. (By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright.) (Reutcr's Telegrams.) (Received March 7th, 7.10 p.m.) BUENOS AYRES, March 6.' The American and Argentine Gov- [ ornments are arranging a conference of all American Republics, with a view to reaching a basis of a real union of the American nations* The director of the Pah-American Union. Mr John Barrett, stated in Chicago recently that if tho war continued another year, all of the twenty republics of Central and South America would be on the side of the allies and the United States. "Six," ho said, ''namely Brazil, the largest South American country in area and population; BoHvia, the third largest; Panama, the smallest; Uruguay, Cuba, and Costa Rica, have already essentially brokon off relations with Germany. Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua Hayti, and the Dominican Republic have assumed practically the same attitude. Argentine, politically the most powerful, is on the vorge of severing relations, and if she so acts, she will probably carry with her Chili Peru, and Paraguay. Of the remaining five countries—Venezuela, Ecuador, Colombia, Salvador, and Mexico— it can bo said that they all lean stronglv towards the United Stntes and the Allies. Public sentiment throughout all South America, as expressed by tho newspapers, is overwhelmingly proAmerican. and pro-Ally, for flo prr rent, of these papers are sincerely antiGerman. If the twenty countries of Central and Bouth America enter the wnr in a way. th"y em raise an army of 2.(XX),G00 of splendid fighting men, and prove of immeasurable value in solving the food supply problem."