710.H Continental Solidarity/54: Telegram
The Chairman of the American Delegation (Hull) to the Acting Secretary of State
[Received 4:07 p.m.]
11. For the Under Secretary. We have drafted and are taking up tentatively with the delegations on board a redraft of the Argentine proposal. Instead of a resolution we propose an additional protocol to the Buenos Aires Pact. Preamble follows the Argentine text excluding economic and cultural matters. It continues: [Page 50]
“Article 1. In the event that the peace of the American Republics is menaced by force or threat of force or any activities of whatever kind directed by a non-American Government with the intention to subvert the domestic institutions of any American Republic or to establish therein a non-American system of government the American nations recognize (a) that each is equally concerned; (b) that all such acts and activities should be resisted; (c) that each of the American Republics has an equal responsibility in this respect it being understood, however, that the Government of each republic shall act in its own separate capacity in any steps undertaken, and with full recognition of their juridical equality, as sovereign and independent states. They agree that they will consult in any event, taking into account this agreement and all the circumstances.”
Article 2 contains substance of Argentine resolution but includes provision for regular meetings in each year other than those of inter-American conferences.
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