The Archive · 1928

THE PAN-AMERICAN CONFERENCE

Mexican Proposal to Change Chairmanship Defeated Havana, Jan, 30, The Committee of the Pans American Congress to-day wnanilourly rejected the proposals of the Mexican delegation to change the practice of conferring the chair= manship of the Governing Body of the Pan-American Union on the United States by substituting there-Wor an arrangement whereby the chairmanship would go in alphabetierotation to all the nations belonging to the Union, The Committee also took a stop toward inclusion of Canada in pan-American deliberations by approving, with special reference to Canada, a suggestion that the Inter-American Commercial Aviation Treaty should be sent to all open adherents of the Western hamisphere.—Reuter,

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