PAN-AMERICAN UNION

Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 121, 20 February 1928, Page 9

PAN-AMERICAN UNION

ARGENTINE DELEGATE RESIGNS Havana, February 16. The resignation of the Argentine delegate, Senor Puerrydon, as a protest against the failure to include a free trade declaration in the new PanAmerican Union Convention, and an impassioned speech by Air. C. E. Hughes, former Secretary of State for U.S.A., that the United States would never be guilty of an act of aggression upon any Latin-American country, and would do everything in its power to avert international friction in the future, again emphasised the spirit of revolt among Latin-Americans in the present conference. Mr. Hughes declared that the United States sought nothing but the prosperity, .independence, and friendship of all American States. He supported a Mexican resolution declaring aggressive war illegal, and providing tliat international disputes be settled by pacific means. INTERVENTION QUESTION (Rec. February 19, 11.5 p.m.) Havana, February 18. The Pan-American Conference shelved the question of intervention in the belief that anv further discussion would do more harm than good. It also decided that jurists representing the American Republics meet in Washington within the next year for the purpose of drafting an arbitration convention, j