The delegations to the Pan-American Conference today went quietly about the task of unifying the various proposals dealing with measures designed to limit the political activities of alien groups in America. The steering committee had before it detailed plans submitted yesterday by Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay, apparently designed to forestall any possibility of “self-determination” activities by Nazi or Fascist factions.
That the 21 American nations are unanimous in their approval of a continental drive against totalitarian penetration was seen in the fact that Argentina, the leader of a group of nations that formerly were ready to block any measure that might be construed as anti-European, has actually taken the lead with a far-reaching proposal to stem the advance of extra-continental doctrines.
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