Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-09
'PAN.AMERICAN NATIONS
+, TO. JOIN in CONFERENCE
Fourteen Countries Have Already Ac.
copied Invitations to Arbitration
Meeting Here in December.

Paris. but of the pan-American treaty.
and achievement of as much progress
as is practicable in the Nicaragusn and
Chinese situations wherein the United
States Is heavily committed. Thu
Mexic2n situation continues to work
out satisfactorily. although thu necessity
! there Of picking new president leaves
the situation In tl,at respect loss favor
sbie than 1t was prior tn the assassina
ton of President ELECT Obrceon.
Doctrine May BE Issue.
Whether the Monroe Doctrine Is 70
be discussed at length here in December
is not now apparent. But as the pro-
posed arbitration treaty IL nk,lv fl
cover as wide ground as the Kellogg
universal pact it is within the rance IF
possibility that the doctrine will b.
analysed with reference to possible dis
putes that NAV arise under it. Cos. J,
Flea recently brought the doctrine to
the front bv asking the council of the
League of Nations to define its sore.
but the council declined to do this.
At Havana the scope of the December
conference here was defined broadly.
The subcommittee at Havana which
handled the proposal for a conference
began with unanimous declaration
against war. 1t resolved that "agcres-
sive warfare" is crime against human
itv and that all conflicts between Ame"-
i"Sn ra+ions should be settled paace-
ab'r Thin the principle of comnrl-
sorry arbitration was Endorsed. res-rvinq.
however. rom ste questions ard dS-
putes affecting the sovereignty and in
dependence Of the contracting parties
and withholding from arbitration mat.
tiers involving the interests or referring
to the actions of a nation not a party
to the convention.
1t is with the object of drafting p
treaty to make the foregoing objects
effective that the Washington confer
ence was called. The eloquent speeches
of Mr.. Hughes at Havana smoothed
down many criticisms and were rated as
the greatest single factor in the success
Of the conference He would be greatly
missed if for any reason he could not
finish the work there begun by attend
ing the WASHINGTON conference as Ii
delegate. Mr.. Hughes is due back in
the United States from Eurooe2n va
cation before the end of this month.
Plans Go Forward. ..
Preparations for the Washington con-
ference have been going forward cease
oSCI >bdIy NGlIOSg , UD~
sence III Europe. The sessions will be
held in the Hell of Nations of the Pen-
American Union Building on Seven
tenth street. DR.. Leo S. Rowe. direc-
tor general of the Pan-American Union,
naturally has leading part in prepar-
ing for the conference. and the work is
we'll In hand at this stage of the prepa-
rations.
While the program and agenda have
not been announced, 1t is expected that
President Coolidge will welcome the
conference on December 10 and indi-
cate broadly the hopes of the United
States from its labors, and at the con-
clusion of the conference he may say
farewell to the delegates in a plenary
session. A reception at the White
House is among the possibilities, and
the social side of the conference will
be important because of the eminence
of the delegates and the. significance
of the gathering.
The burden of being host to the con-
ference will fall upon Secretary KEEL
lcgg. though in the organization of the
conference It remains for the delegates
to select presiding officer and other
executives and assistants DR.. James
Brown Scott, secretary of the Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace
and one Of the American delegates to
the Havana conference, pays this trib-
Ute to the work accomplished there
last Winter:
THE American Republics appear to
have more in common than they have
differences. The workers In the field
must indeed have been alert and active
TO garner such vast and promising
harvest. The great outstanding feature
is that the sixth conference met and
adjourned with promise of a seventh
conference, and the friends of pam
An1ericanism have hope that the sew
enth will be but the next of an in
definite series of conferences of the
American States"