LIMA CONFERENCE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 December 1938, Page 5

LIMA CONFERENCE

GERMANS AND ITALIANS ANGRY attempts to stir up TROUBLE OVER NOT BEING INVITED TO RECEPTION. NEW EPOCH IN EVOLUTION OF AMERICAS. Py Telegraph—Press Association Copyright. LIMA. December 28. German and Italian official news agencies are endeavouring to make an international incident of the fact that German journalists were not invited to President Venavide's reception. The Peruvian Foreign Office explained that invitations 'were confined to journalists from American countries. However, several French journalists were present.

The Peruvian Government has refused to permit the transmission of a strongly worded dispatch to the German Government in which the Nazi journalists allege that the fact that they were not invited was a hostile act against the German Government. It is further alleged that throughout the conference the Nazis were treated with marked contempt. The complaint has been taken to the German Minister in Lima who is expected to relqy the protest through diplomatic channels and possibly to make an official protest to the Peruvian Foreign Minister. The official Italian Stefani agency is lodging a similar protest with the Fascist Minister in Lima. The Italians and Germans boycotted the final session of the conference, which closed on a note of accord, the Chairman, Dr Carlos Concha, declaring that the Americas had reached a new epoch in their evolution toward solidarity.

The United States of America Secretary of State, .Mr Cordell Hull, said: “We have stated our agreements in declarations rather than in treaties and that is wise when the matters dealt with are! of a general character and a political nature.” He asserted that the conference had given statesmen a greater faith in the common destiny of America and added: ”We know that agreements which appeared to offer a foundation of stability and order have often disappeared and much of the world s trust in any form of agreement has completely vanished. Might has stated that it would have its way and would recognise no equal save might.

“We propose to express our common desire to work together effectively to resist the spread of these conditions to our own continent to the utmost degree and to this end vigilance may be required.”

A GREAT SUCCESS PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT ON CONFERENCE. NO COMMENT ON NAZI ALLEGATIONS. WASHINGTON, December 28. President Roosevelt refused to comment directly on the Nazi Press’s jubilation, over “the failure of the United States of America’s policy in South' America," but expressed complete satisfaction with the achievements in Lima. The President said he considered the conference a very, very great success and added: “The American delegation accomplished what it hoped to accomplish. It is felt here, even by those who would have liked to see a stronger attitude defined that it is better to have a unanimous statement recorded than a declaration adopted which was tantamount to ruling out Argentina from the Western Hemisphere.” WIDER OUTLOOK CO-OPERATION IN WESTERN HEMISPHERE. NEED OF BETTER ECONOMIC SYSTEM. NEW YORK, December 28. Broadcasting from Lima today, the Assistant Secretary of State, Mr Berle, said that, as a result of the Lima Declaration, the defence of the American continent, which the United States of America had hitherto maintained through the Monroe Doctrine, had now become the business of the whole continent. American institutions, beside territory, had to be protected. Stressing the need for avoiding a narrow spirit of nationalism, Mr Berle remarked significantly: “We cannot ask countries to sacrifice their European markets if we are prepared to close our own. We must do our share in establishing a practical economic system."