710.Consultation(2)/235
The Acting Secretary of State to the Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs (Bloom)
My Dear Mr. Bloom: I acknowledge the receipt of your letter of July 9,69 in which you give me the opportunity to comment on H. Con. Res. 85, “To Promote Peace”, requesting the Secretary of State “to place on the agenda of the Pan American Conference to be held at Habana this month a proposal that the pan-American countries as a unit tender their good offices as a mediator in the disputes which now unhappily threaten to disrupt European civilization”, introduced by Representative Ludlow.
The general purpose of this resolution will receive the Department’s prompt and careful attention and a further communication70 will be forwarded to you in due course. However, it should be pointed out that the agenda for the forthcoming meeting of the Foreign Ministers at Habana, to which I assume Mr. Ludlow refers in his resolution, was approved in final form by the Governing Board of the Pan American Union on July 5, so that the specific inclusion in that agenda of Mr. Ludlow’s proposal would not now appear to be feasible.
Sincerely yours,