Mr. Cordell Hull, U.S. Secretary of State and leader of the United States delegation to the Pan-American Conference, reporting to the delegates on the progress of the Conference, declared today:
"The American Republics are fully conscious of the threat represented by the principles of institutions, which have appeared in the world among nations professing different ideals from ours, and which they are seeking to disseminate, or to impose, by force, because other systems of Governments seem to be weakened.
"Unless I am greatly mistaken, the attitude which prevails here is that the American nations have decided to defend the principles of the institutions which they have freely created for themselves."
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