LIM CONFERENCE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 December 1938, Page 7

LIM CONFERENCE

MEETING OF ALL AMERICAN REPUBLICS UNITY SOUGHT AGAINST TOTALITARIANISM. SUPPORT AND OPPOSITION. 3y Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. LIMA (Peru). December 9. A large number of noh-American official and unofficial observers, specially from the totalitarian States, are attending the eighth Pan-American Conference today. The principal item for consideration not on the agenda is the United States of America’s tacit plans for hemisphere defence.

How far the other Latin American nations are prepared to follow the United States “along the road to solidarity of the American States in upholding their democracy against any totalitarian encroachment” remains to be seen.

It is generally known that strong counter-propaganda is being formulateded and distributed by various interested European groups against the United States’ programme.

Agaihst this totalitarian propaganda, however, are a number of questions outstanding between the United States ind the various Latin American counties, such as the expropriation by Mexico and trade questions, including credits to Argentina, and the whole problem of how far the United States can go to guarantee by force the principles it will enunciate. The United States Secretary of State, Mr Cordell Hull, however, in a wireless address before the opening of .he conference, reaffirmed that, “We ire determined that peace shall be maintained in the American continents and we are in agreement that any menace to that peace is a matter concerning us all.”