Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-03-18
SALVADOR ENDORSES
j. S. TREATY PLANS
President MeIendez, in Ad-
dress to Congress, Expresses
Confidence in MIR. Wilson.
MADE PUBLIC HERE
BY MINISTER ZALDIVAR
Central American Executive Leads
Way in Aiding the New Pan
American Policy.

Dr.. Don Rafael Zadivar. minister Of
Salvador at Washington. today made pub
lie here portions of the address to the
congress of Salvador delivered by Presl-
dent Melendez of that country, relating TO
the relations between Salvador and, the
Emitted States. in which Salvador lndorses
the proposal for treaties between the
United States and the Latin American
countries which provide for territorial in
teerity of the American republics.
This government. President Melendez
said in his address. sees III the project
of the North American government very
laudable and sincere effort for preserving
peace among the American nations and
eliminating from diplomatic relations
many obstacles that impede good har-
mony among the states and SOW iach Oh
confidence and suspicion.
brought to the American republics by the
war in Europe, COMMUNICATING President
Wilson for his craftsmanship and indors-
ing the paI-American ideal. PRESIDENT
MelendeZ in his address declared IN or
der that those ideas. rcvelatory OF the
highest desderatGm of American pubic
law. can be from now on living ana
fecund reality. it is necessary that the
arrogate to themselves any supremacy.
nor try to impede the free development
of the small American nationalities
This" he said, sis precisely to my
mind the spirit and the scope of the ample
and most high direction in which the
North American government anxiousy
desires to push forward the international
policy of the new world. He continued,
in part:
I'm the presence of the gigantic crisis
in Europe that involves all society 1t was
natural to weigh and foresee the con-
tributing part that all the nationalities
of the continent of Columbus must share
in the new ichnography Of the world.
Statesmen at Washington.
at was not possible that such ele-
mentary duty would not be assumed by
the statesmen of all America, and that is
why, without any doutN whatever. the
statesmen who govern in the Capitol at
Washington. after closely observing the
natural course of events, have decided
to offer to the conscience OF America a
new route which these nationalites must
follow with view to future. full. per-
haps. of rugged difficulties, in order that
they may occupy in the new interna-
tional and economic organization that is
brought forth By the enormous European
crisis the place that belongs to them as
factors OF SUCH niSH moran anu eCOIOIHlC
value that probably their proper and
prudent performance in the process of
the pacification of the earth may con-
vert them into the center of attraction
and gravity upon which may better rest
the destinies of the human race.
'.And as We aware that the lament
able phenomenon of the aggression of the
strong. and the distrust and dsmay Of
those who have not yet reached that
point, is the ostensibie and apparent
cause of the disorganization of the sys-
TEN OF solidarity and harmony that
should prevail among all human relations.
the first step that the public men OF
North America should have taken has
been logically an act Of policy that would
eliminate any germ what ever OF such
tendencies subversive to all just and per-
petual order
This. without doubt. obeys the trans
cendental thought of his excellency
President Wilson. in recently proposing
to all the governments of the continent
the formulation of diplomatic pact that
would strengthen the independence and
sovereignty of the American peoples
and the sound integrity of their terrific
ries. by means of a solemn agreement all
mutually guaranteeing the inviols bility
Of the national and sovereign patrimony
Of each.