The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-01-15

try to get something done Also, the delegates and their technical advisers are beginning to know each other now, and the informal gatherings across the hall and up in Guillermo's room do almost as much for building hemisphere soli- darity as anything settled around conference table.
 A good bit of formality was neces- sary in the Bunenos Aires confer ence in 1886 and at Lima in 1888. That was the wishful, sentimental period, but at the meetings of for elgn ministers in Panama in 1859 and Havana in 1940 there was the real threat of the European war forcing the delegates to adopt real istic policies for safeguarding the hemisphere.
 WELLES HOPEFUL
 The tide has now definitely swung in our direction. thinks Undersecre- tary of State Sumner Welles, the United States representative at the Rio meeting. The American re- publics are standing together and they manifest greater desire to show unity with us. In addition, there is an element of fear in- volved-a fear of what this war may do to nations not technically inyolVed-that prompts collabora- ton. No one can talk about or predict what policies the meeting will adopt, but none of the United States delegates goes to Rio at all discouraged about the possible out come.
 For the first time, a much more varied assortment Of advisers goes along with MT. Welles. The under secretary is generally regarded i.s sufficient unto himself ill handling diplomatic angles Of any interna- tlOnal meeting, but so involved are the war issues that q panel of eX- pcrts from government agencies other than the State Department VIII make up the contingent from Washington. Undersecrctary of Commerce Wayne c. Taylor, presi- dent of the Export-Import Bank, Warren Lee Plerson, Carl SpaeJh, representing Vice President Wal lace's Economic War Board and Co-ordinator of Inter- American Af- fairs Nelson Rockefeller, Vice Chair man of the Maritime Commission EaWard Macauley, and in addition the director of monetary research from the Treasury, the chief of the special defense unit from the De- partment of Justice, the director of the office of foreign agrIculCural re- lations from the Department of Agriculture, and cozen others.
 The purpose of this big delega- ton Is to simplify the making of decisions at the meeting without having to refer technical questions procedure. Interesting to note is back to Washing oon and so delay the absence of Army and Navy ot- flcers. This is a peace meeting and not a war strategy council.
 In spite. of the size of the U. $. delegation, each nation gets only one vote, and that is cast by the official repreS"ntatiyc-in our case, Sumner Welles. As the meeting breaks up into committees, however, the membcr of the delegation as- signed to each committee may cast the vote for his country.
 TWO CHIEF POINTS
 With two main questions on the agenda prepared by the Pan Amer ican Union-preservation of sover- eighty and territorial integrity of the American republics, ard the strengthening of the economic soli- darity of the American republics the meeting will divide into two principal committee but as there are various sub-topics under the main headings, every body gets a chance to do something.
 Even though the representative of any particular country is not of fictally member of some sub- committee, still every country has a right to send one of its dele2a- tion arouLd to any subcommittee and speak piece to put over a par ticular point.
 When all the sub-committees re- port, the resolutions and declara- lions are given to drafting com mittee, which puts them in the four official langu ges of the American republics, English, Portuguese, Span ish and French. The Portuguese is for Brazil and the French for Haiti. Then, at a plenary session, the 2l foreign ministers cast their votes and the Declarations of Rio be- come an important document which the diplomats will refer to for time to come. But they're all in the most general of terms.