The Pan-American Conference recently concluded at Lima, might "prove a significant landmark in the history of free people," as a Declaration of Independence on the part of the United States, declared Mr.
Louis Johnson, United States Assistant Secretary for War, in a banquet here yesterday, honouring the memory of President Jackson.
He said that.the Conference revealed a growing sense of unity and common interest in fairness among all peoples in North a South America. The Conference's words, declared Mr. Johnson, vere harmony, tolerance, freedom, peace and democracy "By pledging her faith in these principles, idealistic America has answered with an effective counterbarrage the attack upon its institutions that has come from the decadent ideologies of the Old World," Mr. Johnson added.—Reuter.
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