710.Consultation(2)/120b: Circular telegram
The Secretary of State to the Chiefs of Diplomatic Missions in the American Republics
Department’s circular, June 27, 8 p.m. (In case of telegram to Brazil, refer to Department’s telegram to the Embassy at Rio de Janeiro, June 27, 2 p.m.)
Please inform the Foreign Minister of the country to which you are accredited that the project of agenda transmitted by the Department’s circular referred to above was considered by the Governing Board of the Pan American Union at a special meeting held today. The Governing Board requested the Secretary of State, as its Chairman, to transmit the project of agenda, as amended, to the other American governments for their consideration and comment.
At the request of the Governing Board, it is desired that all comments be submitted prior to July 5 so that definitive action may be taken by the Governing Board at a meeting to be held on that date.
[Page 208]The amended agenda, which is the same as that transmitted in the Department’s circular of June 27, 8 p.m. with the following changes, should be handed to the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the country to which you are accredited:
Delete under chapter I—Neutrality, Section (3), and replace with the following: “Exchange of information on activities which may develop within the territory and jurisdiction of any American republic that tend to endanger the common American democratic ideal.”
Delete chapter II—Protection of the Peace of the Western Hemisphere—, and replace with the following:
“Consideration of measures to be taken with a view to the preservation of the sovereignty and peace of the nations of the Western Hemisphere:
- (1)
- The study, in accordance with Resolution XVI approved by the Meeting of Panama of October 3, 1939, of the problems which may confront the American republics in case the sovereignty now exercised by non-American states over geographic regions of the Americas is relinquished, lapses, or is materially impaired.
- (2)
- The examination of the measures which have been or may be proposed in order to insure the attainment of the objectives set forth in the Joint Declaration of Continental Solidarity, the General Declaration of Neutrality, the Declaration of Panama, and the consideration of the problems of continental security.
- (3)
- The examination of the machinery of inter-American consultation created by the Buenos Aires and Lima Conferences, with a view to determining the steps which may be taken to increase its effectiveness.”
Please endeavor discreetly to impress upon the Minister for Foreign Affairs of the country to which you are accredited the desirability of his representative on the Governing Board being furnished with full instructions to permit him to participate in the meeting to be held on July 5.