710 Conference W and PW/2–945: Telegram
The Ambassador in Uruguay (Dawson) to the Secretary of State
Montevideo, February 9, 1945—4 p.m.
[Received 5:44 p.m.]
[Received 5:44 p.m.]
104. I communicated yesterday to Serrato contents your 55, February 6. He has handed me a tentative draft of “American pact of peace [Page 28] and mutual guarantee” containing eight articles which I summarize as follows:
- 1.
- Repudiates force as means of settling international conflicts except where employed to resist acts contrary to stipulations of pact or pursuant to collective procedure envisaged in articles III, IV, and V.
- 2.
- Parties to bind themselves to submit to juridical procedure by any agreements which may exist between parties to controversy.
- 3.
- Parties to bind themselves to maintain collectively and individually by all means including force and territorial integrity political independence and inviolability of rights and boundaries of each and all.
- 4.
- In case of any violation of obligations or fear of violation parties to consult at initiative of any one of them in order to agree upon most suitable collective measures to prevent violation, impose immediate cessation of force, reestablish status quo ante and oblige parties to submit conflict immediately to juridical settlement.
- 5.
- Every agreement award or sentence terminating an international conflict to have collective and individual guarantee of all signatories to insure compliance, guarantee to be made effective pursuant to terms of article IV.
- 6.
- Pact and instruments of ratification to be deposited in Mexican ForOf.
- 7.
- Pact to take effect as between parties upon deposit of instruments of ratification.
- 8.
- Stipulations of pact concerning collective use of force for insuring regional peace and security to be adapted ipso jure to provisions of instrument creating new world security organization.
Text by airmail to Department and Mexico City.61
Dawson
- See Report of the Delegation of the United States of America to the Inter-American Conference on Problems of War and Peace, pp. 155–156.↩