Evening star., 1940-07-23

FIdn TOT cooperative
faction by21 Nations.
Joint Marketing Scheme,
Fight on Propoeondists
Among Suggestions
Tert OF Secretary OF State
HulPs address to the second
meeting of the Foreign Ministers
OF the American republics at
Havana yesterday:
Mr.. Chairman, fellow represent
atives of the American republics:
Permit me, first Of all, to express
my deep personal pleasure in setting
foot once more on the soil of the
great nation whose guests we are
at this time. Forty years have
| passed since my first visit to these
shores, when I had the honor to
serve with my regiment in the
cause of Cuba's liberation. I doubly
welcome the present opportunity to
revisit this country-both because
Of the personal qualification which
1t affords me and because of the
vital Importance of the purpose
which has brought us together in
this beautiful city of Havana.
We are here as representatives of
the 81 free and independent Amer
lean republics. We meet when
world conditions are perhaps graver
than they have ever been before.
Our purpose Is to devise concrete
rmeasures by which a number of
pressing problems may be met. Our
objective is to safeguard the inde-
pendence, the peace and the we'll
being of the American republics.
For nearly year now, new
major war has ragged, with increas-
ing fury, over important areas of
the earth. 1t came as elimination
-of a process of deterioration of in
-ternational conduct and interna-
tional morality, extending over a
period of years, during which forces
'of ruthless conquest were gathering
strength in several parts of the
world.
Bent on Uprooting
Existing Institutions.
These forces, now at work in the
world, shrink from no means OF
attaining their ends. In their con-
tempt for all moral and ethical
values, they are bent on uprooting
the very foundation of orderly rela-
-tions among nations and on sub
verting, undermining and destroying
existing social and political insti-
tutions within nations. They have
already left in their wake formerly
sovereign nations, with their inde-
pendence trampled into dust and
millions of proud men and women
with their liberties destroyed
Our American republics had no
part in kindling the tragic conflagra-
tion which has thus been sweeping
across the world. On the contrary,
severally and jointly, we did every
Ithing in our power to stay its out
burst. Once the conflict had begun,
we did everything we could to limit
its spreading. But it has been in
Increasingly clear that in the vast
tragedy which has befallen large
| proportions of the earth there are
dangers to the American nations
as well which It would be suicidal
mot to recognize in time and not to
prepare to meet fully and decisively.
Must Not Blind Ourselves
Into Fatal Complacency.
It has been increasingly clear that
our nations must not blind them
selves into fatal complacency-as 50
many nations have done to their
mortal sorrow-regarding the posi-
hility of attack against them from
without or of externally directed
attempts from within to undermine
their national strength and to SUBJ
vert their cherished social and
political institutions, or both.
Too many nations have only re-
Gently paid tragic price for conf
IDENTIFY placing reliance for their
safety and security solely upon
clearly expressed desire to remain
at peace, upon unequivocally pro-
claimed neutrality, upon scrupulous
avoidance of provocation. Conquer
ors, invaders and destroyers ignore
or brush aside reasons such as these
Looming ominously on our horizon
Is the danger that attempts may be
made to employ against our nations
too, the same means of subordinating
their destinies to control and dicta-
tion from abroad that have already
been notoriously employed elsewhere
against numerous other countries
We must recognize the serious pos
sibility that no effort or method
may be spared to achieve, with re-
spect to some Of us, economic domi-
nation and political penetration, and
to SOW. among our nations, the seeds
of suspicion, dissension and discord-
the frequent prelude to even more
menacing action.
Americas Working Together
Freely to Meet Danger.
Lest our nations. too, suffer the
fate that has already befallen sc
many other peace-loving and peace.
seeking nations, wisdom and pru-
dence require that we have in oul
hands adequate means of defense
To that end, in the face of COM
mon danger, our nations are already
working together, in accordance with
their firmly established practice ol
free consultation among equals anc
Of voluntary cooperation with re.
gard to problems which are of com.
mon concern to us all.
It Is to examine such of these
problems as are Immediately press
ing and to seek for them most ef-
fective solutions that the represen-
tatives of the 81 American repub-
lies have come together at this
time.
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