"AMERICA FOR AMERICANS"
GUATEAIALA CITY, Mar. 2. ' A "grea-t battle'-' to absorb ali foreign colohies iii the .Americas will be waged at the Pan- American Conference, openihg at Bogota, Colombia, on, Alarch 30, said the President of Guate maia (Benor Juan Jose Arevalo) in a special message to Congress today. . The president added: "We trpst thaf the Guatemalan resolution to be diseussed at Bogota, calJing for the disappearance ot all cQlonies on American ' territory, will be tlie beginning of a solution lfot only of our claims, on British Honduras, Out also of all sitmtar situations existing between sister countries and overseas Powers. " Argentina'and Chile have alread) taken tne first step by anticipating with deeds tlie great 'Battle of Bogota' ". (Obviously, President- Arevalo referrod to the recent trip Ov tlie Chileau President, Wenor Gabriel Gonzalez Videla, to take possession personally of : the Antartic hinds claimed by Chile, and also to the dispateh 'of the Argentine navv task fon-e to tile viciuity of the territories claimed ■ by Argentina below Cape llorn. Britain opposes the claims of both Argentina and Chile.)
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Chronicle (Levin), 4 March 1948, Page 5
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