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Spokesman for this First School is Dr. Leo Stanton Rowe, Director-General of The Pan-American Union at Washington and a U. S. delegate to the Conference (See THE PRESIDENCY). He recently said: "The Sixth Pan-American Congress is not intended to accomplish results of a spectacular nature...
...Since Liberty was won the most transcendental act in the internal life of America will probably be the holding at Havana of the Sixth Pan-American Conference...
Just 102 years ago the first truly Pan-American conference was assembled at Panama City by the great Simon Bolivar, "The Liberator," whose feat in kindling South America to shake off her bondage to Europe stands indirectly alluded to by President Machado. Unfortunately the Conference of 102 years ago accomplished absolutely nothing. What will be accomplished by the Pan-American Conference...
There are two schools of thought and proposed action. One, headed by the U. S., seeks to exclude major political issues, tries to keep the Conference and its permanent agency* in a rut of cumulative, bureaucratic progress: pamphlets . . . scholarships . . lectures infinitudes of supplemental Pan-American societies . . . emotion . . . soft soap...
...Broadly speaking, the topics included in the agenda of the Conference may be divided into six groups: First, the organization problems of the Pan-American Union; second, questions of an inter-American judicial nature; third, problems of communication; fourth, intellectual cooperation; fifth, economic problems, and sixth, social problems...