710. G Peace/2: Telegram
The Chairman of the American Delegation (Hull) to the Acting Secretary of State
[Received 6:30 p.m.]
36. Referring Pan American agenda, topic 1, methods for preventing and pacific settlement international conflicts.6 With a view to providing for situations arising between states, one or both of whom are not effective parties to existing arbitration and conciliation conventions, would Department approve submission to Conference of resolution reading substantially as follows: “The Seventh International Conference of American States, resolves: It shall never be deemed an unfriendly act for states, who are neighbors to states engaged in a controversy threatening or rupturing their peaceful relations, to offer their neighborly good offices to the end that such differences may be so composed as to avoid recourse to or to end measures of force between the differing states. The foregoing procedure shall not be applicable where other instrumentalities for the peaceful adjustment of international disputes are already provided between the parties, unless such instrumentalities are not applied in fact”. The foregoing merely incorporates certain principles of the Second Hague Convention touching mediation7 and one clause of Bryan peace treaties.8