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...banquet given to the heads of the delegations by President Allessandri of Chile, Henry P. Fletcher made a speech in which he showed the difference betwen America and Europe and stated that democracies cannot be imperialistic...
...plans for drawing American states together have been offered by the delegates. Chile proposed an agreement to limit naval armaments following the example of the Four Power Treaty, and Uruguay suggested an American league of nations modelled after the lines of the World League. Together these plans might have gone far toward the realization of Bolivar's dream; but they have been dropped, and the conference, like its predecessors, becomes no more than an opportunity to create "mutual understanding...
...this and nothing more is accomplished the meeting will have served a purpose, for it was through a lack of understanding that the plans for a union were rejected. Brazil would accept no reduction of her navy to the size demanded by Chile's plan, claiming that Chile, with her mountainous coastline, is sacrificing nothing in cutting her navy. The league plan failed because some states favored the existing League of Nations and others, notably the United States, considered that the Monroe Doctrine already adequately fulfills the purpose of a league...
World Opinion. The eyes of the world are upon the fifth Pan American Conference now in session at Santiago de Chile. Secretary of State Hughes, in a message to the Conference, made a plea for a better understanding between nations, the removal of suspicion, distrust and hatred. Every chancellery in Europe it watching the deliberations at the Chilean capital with the keenest interest, with curiosity, with envy, with hatred. Opinion is graduated: there are expressions of genuine goodwill; of mathematical what-will-it-all-come-to. Some see in the Conference the rich New World pitting itself against...
...Chile will propose a measure for the reduction of armaments. This is expected to be the most important and practical matter on the agenda...