Evening star., 1938-12-23
Argentina, Uruguay,
Brazil Join 10 End
Solidarity |mpasse

SoIidarity Impasse
Declaration Reported
Drafted for Accord
At Lima PorIey
BACKGROUND
Eighth Pdn-Americdn Confer
ence at Lima, Peru, snarled oper
solidarity declaration. United
States 1oants fortnight ,parn-
ing<o Germany and Italy not to
attempt aggression in this hemi-
sphere. Argentina, standing al
most alone, 10antS q nilder decld-
ration 1Dhich ,Dould operate
against the United States if it
ever became an aggressor Agree
nent on declaration has been
prematurely reported Seueral
times recently.
By the Associated Press
LIMA, Dec. 23.-The Presidents
Of Argentina and Uruguay and the
foreign minister of Brazil were said
today to have acted to show the
Pan-American Conference a way
out Of its impasse on the vital issue
of Western Hemisphere solidarity
and defense.
Reliable Brazilian informants as
serted the conference had received
copies of a solidarity declaration
agreed upon among President Ro-
berto Ortiz at Buenos Aires. Presi-
dent Alfredo Baldomir at Montevi-
deo and Foreign Minister Oswaldo
Aranha at Rio de Janeiro.
The Brazilians said nearly all
delegations had approved this
formula and that it was likely to be
substituted for an Argentine decla-
ration on which agreement was an
nounced by the conference chair
man. DR.. Carlos Concha of Peru, last
night-prematurely, as it later de-
veloped.
Gropes in Confusion.
Delegates hoped the Argentine
Brazilian -Uruguayan intervention
might lead the Lima meeting out of
confusion in which it had groped
since yesterday as result of rival
declarations on solidarity-most i'm
portant issue before the conference.
Secretary of State Hull, head of the
United States delegation, went to
the conference hall early for con-
sultation with DR.. Concha on the
diuddle,
Earlier today, with Dr. Concha de-
claring fatty I'VE already have
reached an agreement" and with
Brazilian and Argentine delegations
denying an agreement had been
concluded, the delegates, including
those from the United States, could
not figure out where they stood.
Following DR.. Concha's statement
last night that 20 republics had
agreed to Argentina's declaration
of continental solidarity and de-
Tense every one thought an accord
had been reached and began to
celebrate.
But the celebrations were sobered
when Argentine and Brazilian dele
gates demurred and Afranio de
Mello Franco, head of the Brazilian
delegation, demanded of DR.. Concha
why he had issued the statement.
U. S. Delegation Advised.
It seemed evident that the con-
ference chairman had not consulted
Argentine and Brazilian delegates
before issuing his formal statement,
although the United States delega-
ton appeared to have been advised.
The declaration on which DR..
Concha said an agreement had been
reached contained far-reaching pro-
visions under which the American
republics proclaimed their decision
to maintain and defend" their con-
tinental solidarity against all for
eign Intervention or activities"
The declaration stated the re-
publics' common concern in
case the peace, security or terri
torial integrity of any American re-
public is threatened by acts of any
nature that may imperil them"
DR.. Concha said the declaration
had been drafted by Argentina and
accepted by the other republics with
slight notifications. 1t provided for
consultation among secretaries OF
state or special representatives of
the republics when deemed advis-
able and at the initiative of any
one of them"
A noticeable difference between
this declaration and the one pub
lished by the Argentine delegation
Wednesday night was that ref
erence to threats from ANY CONT
mental or extra continental power"
In the latter was changed to "all
foreign intervention or activities" in
the former.
The wording, however, was re-
garded as more different in appear
ance than in substance since for
eign" was presumed to include both
continental and extra continental
powers.
DR.. Concha's formal statement de-
elared there were mo basic dis
crepancies' between the declaration
he said was agreed upon and the
various formulas submitted by other
countries.
Secretary Hull, during an extraor-
dinary meeting of delegation heads,
said the declaration was the same
In substance as the declaration to
which a majority previously had
agreed.
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