A solid bloc of American nations was ready tonight to proclaim to the world that the Western Hemisphere will not tolerate any alien doctrine that interferes with its democratic institutions and that a “Sudeten affair” is not to be repeated on this side of the Atlantic.
As the delegates from Argentina and Uruguay gave the finishing touches to parallel proposals that would preclude all possibility of Nazi or Fascist “self-destruction” in America, support for their plan was predicted by the leaders of practically all the delegations attending the Eighth International Congress of American States. Indications were that Brazil, Chile, Bolivia, Paraguay, Mexico and the central American republics had already signified their approval of the Argentine and Uruguayan proposals which, it was reported, are to be redrafted at the next session of the steering committee and submitted to the Congress as one resolution.
The Uruguayan resolution calls on the American nations to declare in unequivocal terms that “any foreign doctrine or edict which tends to interfere with our national life or to govern the activities of aliens living within our boundaries, is incompatible with the sovereign rights of a nation.
At the same time several proposals condemning racial persecutions were put before the steering committee. A Bolivian resolution calling for an American declaration against “reactionary racialism” and an assertion that the ideals of the 21 American republics are based on “fraternity, peace and human understanding” was before the committee. Approval of the Bolivian plan was voiced by the delegates from Cuba, Haiti and several Central American countries.
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