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results" declared Carlos Saavedra
Lamas, Argentine foreign minister
and presiding officer Of the meeting.
OF prime importance. the delegates
said, was President Roosevelt's COM
bined warning to the Old World and
appeal to the New.
I'VE stand shoulder to shoulder in
our final determination that others,
who, driven by war madness or land
hunger, might seek to commit an act
of aggression against us. will find
this hemisphere wholly prepared to
consult together for our mutual safe
ty and our mutual good"
Attends Gennerich Rites.
This morning President Roosevelt
service for his bodyguard, August
Gennerich who died early yesterday
In a restaurant of heart attack.
United States Secretary Of State
Cordell Hull, Ambassador Alexander
w. Weddell, Mrs. Weddell and Sum-
ner Welles, Assistant Secretary of
State, stood with the President near
the flower covered coffin in the ball
room of the United States Embassy.
After the service was read by
Comdr. c. " Ellis, chaplain of the
cruiser Indianapolis, on which Mr..
Roosevelt and Gennerich came to
Buenos Aires, the body was taken to
ha ta
the United States.
Late in the morning President
Roosevelt conversed with Hull and
Welles for more than an hour. 1t was
the first extensive conference the
President and his Secretary of State
had had during Mr.. Roosevelt's visit.
They went over subjects which the
United States is to propose at the
conference and those expected to be
advanced by other delegations.
Then the President was host to IS
persons at luncheon in the main salon
Of the embassy. They included Presi-
dent Justo, members of the Argentine
cabinet, Argentine Vice Preside.t
Julio Roca, Gov. Manuel Fresco of
Buenos Aires Province, other Latin
American diplomats and two Ambas-
sadors to Washington, Felipe Espil of
Argentina and Oswaldo Aranha Of
Brazil.
The first official meeting of the
conference will be held tomorrow,
when the Steering Committee, COM
posed of the chiefs of all delegations,
will discuss formal procedure for the
forthcoming meetings.
The vigorous compliments from the
delegates followed a tumultuous re-
ception for the two Presidents last
night when the conference was con-
vened in the stately hall of deputies
Of the Argentine congressional palace.
Secretary Hull termed his superior 8
speech "a most effective presentation
Of the fundamental problems and
remedies before this conference"
Soto Del Corral, Colombian foreign
minister, said:
Mr.. Roosevelt's speech was admir-
able and shows the great faith in de-
mocracy Of great President. The
most important Of his words was his
indication of the influence Of America
in the world peace movement"
Feeling Truly Interpreted.
Carlos Concha, chief Of the Peruvian
delegation, commented:
Il have been in the United States
many times and know well that North
Americans hate war and are truly
pacifists. So Mr.. Roosevelt fully in.
terpreted the American feeling
Other comment:
Miguel Cruchaga Tocornal, chief OF
the Chilean delegation: "Mr. Roose-
velt's speech was magnificent in form
Is well as in content. He has clearly
outlined the ways OF. barring war. He
is great democrat, and l am sure
that only through. democracy can We
achieve what we want and need"
Ramon Zaydin, Cuban delegate
"Mr. Roosevelt and Senior Justo re.
enunciated the true principle that the
peace Of nations at home and abroad
rests on the exercise of representative
democracy"
Castro Ramirez, delegate from =