At the 8th Pan-American conference, held at Lima, toward the end of last year, the United States submitted a proposal for common defence among the various states of North, South and Central America, suggesting the existence of a menace from the outside, and made the most persistent efforts to carry through its proposal.
But Argentine declared that the danger of invasion from without was imaginary, and that to issue a joint declaration on such imaginer: grounds would endanger the cooperation of the states on the American continents. The Argentine delegate also stated that he could not see why the United States, despite its unique geographical securing its national defence, so concern itself in military preparations, unless it ultimate objective to place all Latin American nations under its sway and protection.
I have given the foregoing quotations because the United States often avails itself of an imaginary menace of invasion for the purpose of military preparations. Every knows that Japan has no intention whatever of invading the United States, but the United States seem: to be planning the fortification Guam as if invasion by Japan wi imminent. The United States should have followed all the way the idea of a Pan-Pacific union advocated by Simon Bolivar, refraining from resorting to plans, for fying its self-interest.
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