Word: inter-american
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...biggest news in Havana was the arrival of delegates from the 21 American republics to open the Inter-American Conference. Principal problems on their agenda were economic and military defense of the hemisphere and disposition of European-owned New World colonies. Under fire even before the conference were several proposals, chief among them the U. S.-sponsored trade-cartel plan, and Cuba's strong suggestion that a joint Pan-American protectorate be established over all foreign-owned islands in the Western Hemisphere...
President General Alfredo Baldomir accepted an invitation to President Roosevelt's proposed inter-American economic conference to try to see how far the hemisphere's abundance might be traded within the hemisphere (see p. 12). He went even further, suggested a Pan-American conference of ministers of war and chiefs of staff to study problems of mutual defense...
...proposed corporation would be a two-billion-dollar agency, set up by direct Congressional appropriation, would include the proposed inter-American bank, to which there are already eight signatories...
...pointed out to your inquirer that World Peaceways wanted our citizens not to stop at praying but to use their God-given faculties to remedy domestic issues, the problems of Inter-American relations, our grave position in the Far East, and our inadequate role in the cause of a better world order...
...increase in U. S.-Latin American trade. For to develop her production of what the U. S. needs, Latin America requires millions of dollars worth of mining and farming machinery, railroads, utilities, other capital goods. These, without export markets, she cannot buy. Hence the need of an Inter-American Bank and U. S. credits to Latin America...