Foreign Relations of the United States Diplomatic Papers, 1938, The American Republics, Volume V

710.H Continental Solidarity/103: Telegram

The Chairman of the American Delegation ( Hull ) to the Acting Secretary of State

Lima , December 24, 1938—1 p.m.
[Received 2:55 p.m.]

60. Twenty-one countries have now signed solidarity declaration.³⁰ Text not yet released. Brazil desires to make some declaration³¹ in a manner not yet determined clarifying Brazilian position.

I will speak at plenary this afternoon about 6:15.³² Will cable text of my address for release on receipt of press association flash that I have begun speaking.

Hull

30. Declaration of the Principles of the Solidarity of America, approved December 24, 1938. Article Fifth states that “This Declaration shall be known as the ‘Declaration of Lima’;” see Report of the Delegation of the United States, p. 189.
31. Remarks by the Chairman of the Delegation of Brazil, December 24, 1938, Octava Conferencia Internacional Americana, Diario de Sesiones, p. 1041.
32. Address of the Honorable Cordell Hull at the Plenary Session, December 24, 1938, Report of the Delegation of the United States, p. 102.