Evening star., 1915-11-13
PAN-AMER|CAN PACT
MEETS WITH FAVOR
Gen. Maxine B. RosaIeS AdV0-
Gates Offensive and De-
fensive Alliance.
WOULD UNITE COUNTRIES
OF WESTERN HEMISPHERE
Former Member of Honduran Cabi-
net Says Question Is Most
Important of Century.

Gen Maximo 3. Rosales. a former
member of the cabinet of Honduras.
who recently arrived in Washington
and who has had. several conferences
with officials of the Latin American
division of the State Department, is
having a series of consultations with
Winfield Jones, secretary of the Ma
tional Defense League, in regard to the
possibility of extending through Gen.
tral American countries a so-called
doctrine of pan-American unity. ad-
vocated by the National Defense
League. Mr. Jones has been instru-
mental in spreading this doctrine
through Central America. and Presi-
dent Porras of Panama has had it pub
1ished in Spanish as a public document,
sending ii to the presidents and prin-
cipal officials of Latin American coun-
tries.
Unity in Western Hemisphere.
The doctrine includes the idea of
unity of nations of the western hemis
phere for national defense against pos
sible European or Aslatic aggression.
Gen. Rosales, it was stated today,
first read in a Honduras paper of the
1t that he decided to come to the United
States and advocate it. He will con-
fer with members of Congress at the
next session and with Senior Peralta,
his secretary, who has come to Wash
ington with him. hopes to appear be-
fore the foreign affairs committees of
the House and Senate to urge treaties
making effective the new doctrine
Later. Gen. Rosales. accompanied by
Senor Peralta, will visit the South and
Central American republics d
speaking tour, where, in the principal
capitals. they will advocate pan-Ameri-
can unity.
In an interview Gen. Rosales declared
the pan-American doctrine. in view of
the unexpected European war and the
possible future developments from
that war which might adversely affect
the United States and her sister repub-
lies, is the most eimportant matter to
be presented to the nations of the
western hemisphere in this century.
The United States and every South
and Central American republic must
stand together as q solid unit for de-
fenslVe and, if need be, offensive pur-
poses against any possible enemy from
any quarter" declared the general
European War Unexpected.
Nobody expected war in Europe
Nobody expects it in the United States
or South and Central America But we
do not know when the nations of pan
America or the United States might be
attacked Therefore we ought to be
ready TO present a united front in the
western hemisphere to any possible
aggression The PAN American doctrine
should quickly become a settled policy
of the western world. With this doc
trine an effective force and the pam
American nations in a great defensive
alliance no European or Asiatic ma
tIon. or coalition of nations, would dare
to attack the United States or any of
her neighbor republics"
AT the conference on national de-
fense, held here October to by the
National Defense League, Senior DR..
Don Eusebio A Morales, minister from
Panama to the United States, advocated
the pan-American doctrine and the de-
fensive unity of the western hemis-
phere- At the annual convention of the
Southern Commercial Congress. to be
held in Charleston, S. G., December 49,
II. Cen Rosales and Mr.. Jones will
speak on the pansAmerican doctrine.