The Latin American counteles, with the lone exception of Paraguay, have greeted the President's proposal with approval. In fact some of his fellow presidents seem to be think-Ing In more concrete terms than Mr. Roosevelt contemplated, President Ublea of Guatemala outlined in his reply a suggestion for mutual assist~ ance in time of war which would be In effect a Pan-American Locarno, President Trujillo of the Dominican Republic used the phrase "An American League of Nations," an idea which was echoed by" President Lopez of Columbia who complained that at Geneva the Latin American countries were subordinated to the European countries, Only President Alessandrl of Chile made 'a special point of emphasizing that the object of the proposed Conference should be to reinforce the @tforis of Geneva in the cause of pea One must also infer that the Argentine Republic Is of the same point of view as {ts neighbour for the Argentine Foreign Minister Ser. Saavedra Lamas, has shown an embarrassing. anxiety to. attend the League Assembly meeting in Septem~ ber when he will act as President. He asked for an carly Conference £0 that he would be able to sail In good time, Mr. Cordell Hull, Secretary of Stale, was, however, anxious to attend the Democratic Convention opening on June 28. The American press has been much entertained at this tug-of-war between the "Two Primadonnas Peace" as they have been unkindly dubbed,
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