Evening star., 1938-12-18
Argentina baIks
Anti-Aggression
Accord al Lima
Hull Appeals for
Acceptance of
= U. S. Project
BACKGROUND

oeC'bco Oy tAy-Oj-UuT OeLUCSu
United States and Argentina
over ertent to Uhich conference
is to declare against foreign ug-
gression. United States deleod-
tion Wdnts strongly Dorded
thrust at potential aggressors
outside this hemisphere. Aryen-
tina ,oants no distinction be-
ttUeen aggression from Without
and ,oithin the American con-
tinents.
BY the Associated Press.
LIMA, Dec. 17.-Heads of leading
delegations to the Pan-American
Conference failed tonight to reach
an agreement on a measure. for
continental solidarity, the Argentine
representative refusing to accede to
the United States viewpoint.
The meeting-the second today
heard Secretary of State Cordell
Hull plead for acceptance of the
American project, but adjourned
without taking action.
After the session, Afranio Mello
Franco, chairman of the meeting
and its spokesman, said it still
would be possible for any delega-
ton to introduce its own resolution
next week although a midnight
deadline had been set. He ex-
pressed optimism that the delegates
would reach an accord next week.
Concha to Construe Rules.
Mello Franco, who is chairman
of the Brazilian delegation, said
DR.. Carlos Concha, Peruvian foreign
minister and president of the con-
ference, could construe the rules
to permit introduction of . reso-
luton by a single delegation.
Isidoro Ruiz Moreno, chairman of
the Argentine delegation, said he
could not agree to the United States
version of the defensive stand with
out consent of his government.
Mr.. Hull was described as favoring
a declaration putting the 81 nations
on record against aggression, and as
having suggested a compromise
which would specify aggression from
both without and within the Western
Hemisphere.
Argentina had insisted that the
resolution should not specify dangers
to American solidarity from of the
continent. This, Ruiz Moreno said,
would have political meaning since
it obviously was aimed at certain ma
tions in Europe and Asia. He asked
new instructions from Buenos Aires
on Argentina's stand.
Special Committee Named.
Delegates of the United States,
Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, Uruguay,
Bolivia, Peru and Colombia attended
the meeting. Mello Franco and
Concha were appointed special
committee to consult delegations Of
smaller countries not present in
order to get their views.
To break the deadlock, Mello
Franco suggested Brazilian COM
promise project, which deferred to
some extent to Argentina. No
meeting of heads Of delegations was
scheduled for tomorrow, but Con-
cha and Mello Franco said they
would begin discussions with other
delegations.
After the meeting Mr.. Hull de-
cided, for the time being at least,
to proceed on the basis of the
Brazilian compromise, which Amer
ican sources described as a skeleton
proposal into which various dele
cations could work ideas agreed
upon.
If an accord can be reached on
the Brazilian proposal. it was said.
the United States resolution might
never be presented formally.
The United States was said to
have between 80 and 80 per cent Of
the delegates behind its proposal.
However, the conference works OH a
unanimous consent rule, so all dele
cations must be in agreement before
it adopts a measure of this type.
A part of Argentina's reluctance
(See LIMA, Page A-3)