Proposals for the Conference are stil In a nebulous state. The Administration here evidently consider the meeting will provide an opportunity for arranging " common policy for the Western Hemisphere should there be a European war and also devise a scheme of common action aging Say American Fapublie which committed an act of aggression against {ls neighbour. "Economic topies can hardly be avoided but the Administration have no great hopes that much can be accomplished in this direction though suggestions have been made that a "tariff truce" might be arranged for the next few years which would provide a favour~ ble atmosphere for the discussion of specific reductions in rates later on.
"There are serious diMculties which will have (o be overcome both from the American and the Latin American side. The memory of the past still Hngers in, Latin American countries and the United States has not yet established its, position equal among equals." There ai more conerete grievances such at the ban on Argentine cattle ostensibly based fu sanitary grounds (foot and mouth lease being suspected) which the Argentine Republic feels. is mainly @ue to the political desirability of pleasing the American farmer.
Senate to be Considered On the American side the position of the Senate has to be considered, Senators during the recent debates on neutrality showed clearly that they disliked the Idea of committing themselves in advance to any policy or the suggestion that they. should forsake "the traditional American neutrality doctrine of complete impartiality. "The only breach they. made in this tradition was an article In the Neutrality Act stating that if an American and a non-American, country fought each other no embargo would be enforced against the American country.
Their altitude was not based on moral grounds but geographical. They still preserved the policy of refusing to designate one particular country an aggressor. "Any arrangement for preserving peace in Latin America
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