Office of the Historian

710 Conference W and PW/2–745: Telegram

The Chargé in the Dominican Republic (Newbegin) to the Secretary of State

Ciudad Trujillo, February 7, 1945—6 p.m.
[Received 11:38 p.m.]

49. The Foreign Minister55 has just informed me (see Embassy’s airgram A–83 February 7, 9:10 a.m.56 forwarded by courier today) that the Dominican delegation, should the opportunity arise, intends to submit to the Mexico City Conference President Trujillo’s plan for a society of American nations. He stated that the delegation would present the matter as forcefully as possible but added that his own [Page 27] opinion was that the prospects for the proposal being adopted were not great. It is understood that the proposal does not vary essentially from that submitted at the Buenos Aires and Lima Conference.57

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  1. Manuel A. Peña Batlle.↩
  2. Not printed.↩
  3. Inter-American Conference for the Maintenance of Peace, Buenos Aires, December 1–23, 1936, and the Eighth International Conference of American States, Lima, December 9–27, 1938. For documentation on these Conferences, see Foreign Relations, 1936, vol. v, pp. 3 ff., and ibid., 1938, vol. v, pp. 1 ff., respectively.↩