Inter-American Pact Imperative
(Rec. 10.45) BOGOTA, April 12. General Marshall (U.S. Secretary of State) announced here to-day that the Pan-American conference delegates are to meet at 7 p.m. to-mor-row to decide, finally, whether the conference would continue in Bogota. General Marshall also disclosed that he has made emergency arrangements for the meeting to continue in the Panama Canal zone; and also for 250 persons to be evacuated from Bogota daii” if necessary. Authoritative sources have disclosed that the chief opposition to the continuance of the conference came from Argentina and Guatemala. General Marshall was adamant in his insistence. “The show must go on,” he declared. “It is of the greatest urgency that an organic inter-American pact shall be completed at this session.”
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Grey River Argus, 14 April 1948, Page 5
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