Word: chapultepec
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...result was the Act of Chapultepec (named for the castle where the Conference met, and where U.S. soldiers invading Mexico died for "Yankee imperialism" in 1847). By this declaration, the U.S. and its Latin sisters ditched a cardinal Pan-American principle (often violated in fact but never in theory): that American nations should not intervene, singly or together, in each other's external affairs. In the Act of Chapultepec, the signers agreed to fight anybody, whether within or outside the Western Hemisphere, who attacks or threatens their territory or "political integrity" during the remainder of World...
...limiting the pledge to the duration. Senators Austin and Connally got around the necessity of immediate Senate approval (the President's emergency powers are enough). By promising to write the pledge into treaties and submit them for ratification later, the Senators gave the Act of Chapultepec a fair chance of becoming permanent policy...
...Chapultepec v. San Francisco. The declaration's first purpose was to put an iron halter on Argentina, the only Latin American country not a member of the United Nations and not represented at Mexico City (see LATIN AMERICA). If Argentina's jingoes went mad and attacked fearful Uruguay or Chile, the Act of Chapultepec would bring the U.S., Brazil, the rest of the Pan-American system solidly into line against Buenos Aires...
Practically, both Britain and Russia may be glad to leave primary responsibility for the Americas to the U.S. At Mexico City, the U.S. delegates evidently hoped so. They limited the Act of Chapultepec to matters "appropriate for regional action." And they specified that action even in these matters" shall be consistent with the purposes and principles of the general international organization...
...Chapultepec faced not only world problems (see above), but also a lot of family business...