710 Consultation 3/82
Press Release Issued by the Department of State, December 10, 1941
This morning the Secretary of State proposed to the Governing Board of the Pan American Union, through a communication addressed to Dr. Leo S. Rowe, Director General of the Pan American Union, that there be held at Rio de Janeiro in the first week of January, 1942, a Third Meeting of the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the American Republics. This request was presented in accordance with Resolution XV adopted by the Second Meeting of the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the American Republics in Habana which stated that, in case acts of aggression are committed, the American Republics will consult among themselves in order to agree upon the measures it may be advisable to take and pursuant to the procedure for invoking a consultation established by Resolution XVII adopted at the same meeting.