Word: inter-american
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...Latin American has no illusions in such matters. He may be flattered by Mr. Hoover's visit. He will welcome the opportunity of obtaining a personal impression of so important a national and international figure. But he will wait calmly for the results as reflected in American policy. And the visit should be productive of results in closer and more cordial inter-American relationships...
Chairman of the Inter-American Commission of Women, to Study the Civil and Political Status of Women in the American Republics-no less-was what the governors of the Pan-American Union last week appointed Doris Stevens to be. Miss Stevens, a moving spirit within the National Woman's Party, attended the Pan-American Congress last January in Havana to present an Equal Rights Treaty. This was the result, gratifying to herself and colleagues. Said she: "A step of great significance . . . challenge to law makers the world over." She outlined the scope of a new super-suffrage for women...
...American Conference at Havana (TIME, Jan. 16 et seq.) transferred most of its business, last week, from open and public committees to closed and secret subcommittees. With the consequent choking off of oratory, there ensued a modest modicum of progress: ¶ The text of a Pan-American Aviation Treaty was drafted. A vital clause confirms to the U. S. a right to make treaties with the Republic of Panama in such fashion as to exclude foreign air snoopers from the vicinity of the Canal. The treaty as a whole sponsors the "establishment and operation of practicable inter-American aerial lines...
...make no secret of our desire to control the Panama Canal in inter-American relations. The United States does not want a provision that might jeopardize our communications, east, west, north, south, in any attack from the air." ¶ The ambitious project of founding a "Pan-American League of Nations" by endowing the Pan-American Union- with political powers was sacked in subcommittee and finally in committee by an adverse vote in the ratio of two to one. ¶ The Conference solemnly and gallantly assembled to hear speeches in behalf of Pan-American womanhood...
...exchange of commodities. Furthermore, recent years have witnessed a most gratifying rise in the standards of living of the wage earners throughout the Americas. They enjoy a greater productive and earning capacity, with a consequent increase in their purchasing power which has been reflected in the growing volume of inter-American commerce...