The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1915-05-05
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MINISTER'S OF ARGENTINE, BRA
I'll AND CHILE MEET
WASHINGTON INTERESTED

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Great Significance is Attached to
Conference Between Three Mediat-
ing Nations-Expected That a
Joint Policy on European Affairs
And Relations With the United
States May Result.
A dispatch from Rio Janeiro,
Brazil, states that DR.. Lauro Muller,
Brazilian minister Of foreign affairs,
set out with his suite Monday night
on a journey to Uruguay and Argen-
tina. A large crowd bade them an
enthusiastic farewell. Primarily their.
purpose was to pay visit of courtesy
to Uruguay which has honored the
late Baron do Rio-Branco, formerly
Brazilian minister of foreign affairs;
by having statue Of Rrio-Branco
placed behind the boundary line be-
tween the two countries. DR.. Muller
will unveil this statue.
Yielding to the urgent requests Of
the governments Of Argentina and
Chile, however, DR.. Muller has been
obliged to extend his itinerary, which
now will bring about an exchange OF
visits by the minister's of foreign af-
fairs of Argentina, Brazil and Chile,
whose action is recalled in the recent
crisis between the United States and
Mexico, indicating the necessity Of a
stronger and more definite union.
After the visit to Uruguay DR..
Muller will go to Buenos Aires, and
from that point he will set out for
Santiago with jose Luis Murrature,
the Argentine foreign minister. From
Santiago they will return to Buenos
Aires, accompanied by Manuel Sail
mas, former minister of finance Of
Chile, on the occasion OF. the Argen-
tine national holiday.
These various meetings will call
forth an exchange Of views which
augur farreaching results. The news
papers all comment upon the event
as bound to mark a new era in the
international politics Of South Ameri-.
ca. E
DR.. Muller and his party will travel
by railroad as far. as Uruguay, and an
Argentine warship will take them
aboard at Monteyideo.
a Washington dispatch says Off
cials and diplomats understand that
the greatest Importance attaches to
the journey Of DR.. Lauro Muller, the
Brazilian minister for Foreign af-
fairs, to Argentina, Chile, and Uru-
quay, on which he started from Rio
Janeiro Monday night. The belief
prevails in some Of the best inform
ed quarters that DR.. Muller's visit
marks the beginning Of an effort to
establish policy Of Pan-American-
ism which means in this case am ar
rs1gement among the South Ameri-
can republics to act together in all
matters pertaining to South Ameri-
can affairs and possibly on the rela-
tons of these nations with nom
American countries.
Commercially and industrially,
Latin-America has been badly Grip
pied by the European war. Up to
the beginning of the great struggle.
the major part of the commercial
dealings of South America was with
Europe Now South Americas busi-
ness relations with foreign lands are
in state of uncertainty as to what
the future will bring forth. It is in
the hope Of producing better and
closer business relations that this gov
ernment has called a conference OF
the finance ministers of South and
Central America, which is to be be-
gun in Washington on May "a.
Throughout certain interested cir
cles there is apprehension that the
ending of the European conflict may
be the beginning Of a new deal in the
relationship between Europe and
Latin-America. The victors in the
gigantic struggle, it has been sug-
gested, may be in a mood to take ad-
vantage of their military supremacy
to demand an adjustment of matters
that in the past have been the. cause
of more or less friction. To Brazil
the outcome Of the war is Of prime
Importance, for, whatever may be
said officially, the fear has been prev
alent for years that the great Ger
man Colonization in that country
might lead to complications, growing
out Of Germany's colonial ambition.
Of course, any such fear, is based on
the assumption that the Monroe Doc
trine would be disregarded by Ger
many, but it has been the cause Of
uneasiness nevertheless.
Charges that German wireless sta
tions were established during the
present war on Colombian and Ecua-
dorian territory were made by the
British government, and it has been
alleged that German warships coaIed
in violation Of international law in
Chilean harbors Another war Incl
dent grew out Of the recent destruc-
tion of the German cruiser Dresden
BIZ = British squadron in the Chilean
port of Juan Fernandez. This
brought q protest from Germany, a
demand for req ess by Chile, and an
apology to Chile from the British
government.
1t is the opinion of some diplomats
that the exchanges will result in
overtures to the United States to join
with the principal South American
countries in an agreement to act in
concert in the adjustment Of purely
American affairs and possibly in a
definition of the relationship that
this government will assume toward
the smaller republics on this hemi-
sphere if danger threatens from any
outside sou4ce. 1t should be made
plain, however, that this is purely
speculative, and nothing has been
said in any official quarter to justify
a supposition that the United States
will depart from its source of hold
ing aloof from understanding as to
a course of future actions. There is
much opposition to Pan-American-
ism in this country, and while the
government has sought to use its in
fluence 70 bring about arrangements
between groups of Americans, it has
done so cautiously.