New Britain herald., 1923-03-23
AMERICAN NATIONS
TO Open CONGRESS
Fifth Pan-American Conference
Begins March 20 in Chile

Washington, March 20 tBy the AS
ISOLATED Press) The fifth Pan-Ameri-
can conference assemblies Sunday,
March 25. at Santiago, Chile, with
the attendance of all of the republics
of the continent excepting Mexico,
Peru and Bolivia.
! The Pan-American conferences
/ we're originally initiated by the govern
ment OF the United States which, with
the express authorization of congress,
invited the other 20 republics OF AM
erica to hold meeting in Washing
/ ton in October of 1889, to discuss
measures ITO preserve the peace and
promote the prosperity of the Ameri-
can states" In that first conference
the present Pan-American union, rep
resentative organization OF the Il
American republics, was created, and
in view of the success Of the meet
| ing, from which closer political and
commercial relations resulted, 1t was
decided to hold periodical conferences.
The second meeting was in Mexico
City in 1901, the third in Rio de Ja-
Metro in 1905, and the fourth in Bue-
nos Aires in 1910. The fifth was to
be held at Santiago in 1914, but the
outbreak of the European war led to
its postponement until the present
time
In view of the time elapsed since
the last meeting, and Of the scope Of
the program to be discussed, the pres-
ent conference has a special signifi-
canoe and is expected to be the most
important of those thus far held.
For the first time matters of political
character in which the United States
has close interest, will be discussed.
Uruguay proposes the establishment
of Pan-American league of nations
and the adoption of a uniform policy
in foreign relations by all the Ameri-
can countries, and Chile presents a
plan for the reduction of armam ents.
Association of American Nations
Under topic TX of the agenda Uru-
quay intends to offer a plan for an
association of American nations,
formed not only of the sovereign
states of the continent, but also of
the islands and territories depending
politically upon countries situated on
other continents, provided they have
their own diplomatic representative
in at least one of the American coun-
tries. The aim of this association
would be to prevent, through arbitra-
ton, and war which would affect di-
rectly or indirectly its members. AL
though the use of force for the carry
ing out of the decisions of the asso-
citation is not proposed, diplomatic.
commercial and financial blockades
against the rebelling countries are
provided for
Encroachment On Rights
Under topic XVI Uruguay will pro-
pose that all the American countries
adopt, as a principle of their foreign
relations, that an encroachment upon
the rights of any one of them, inf1ict-
ed by non-American power, must be
considered an encroachment upon the
right of all, and should call for uni
form policy from ALL 1t was under
this doctrine called in South America
the Brum doctrine, that Uruguay
broke its relations with Germany
upon the entrance of the United
States into the world war.
Reduction OF Arrnaments
The reduction of ornaments pro-
posed by Chile under topic XII is
expected to be the most important
and practical of the matters to be
discussed, the success of which de-
ponds, principally upon an agree
ment between Argentina, Brazil and
Chile, the three leading naval and
military powers of South America.
The United States already having re-
duced its armed force to the mini
mum under the five powers agree
ment of 1921, the present navy and
army of this country will not be af-
fected.
y OF the 10 points of the agenda, the