710.Consultation(2)/102a
The Secretary of State to
the Director of the Pan American Union (Rowe)
Washington, June 27, 1940.
My Dear Dr. Rowe: In connection with the
meeting of the Governing Board of the Pan American Union, which has been
called for Saturday, June 29, in order to determine the agenda of the
forthcoming Meeting of the Foreign Ministers of the American Republics
to be held at Habana, I enclose for consideration by the drafting
committee which I understand has been appointed a suggested agenda
prepared in the Department of State.
You will observe that this document follows the headings and the general
form used at Panama. It is intentionally broad in scope and general in
terms so as to permit the Foreign Ministers to give consideration to the
projects which may be presented at the meeting in connection with all
the problems of common interest which confront them.
Sincerely yours,
[Enclosure]
Proposed Agenda for the Second Meeting of the
Foreign Ministers of the American Republics
I—Neutrality
Consideration of the rights and duties of the belligerents and of the
American republics, including:
- (1)
- The examination of the pertinent recommendations of the
Inter-American Neutrality Committee and of the steps which
have been taken as a result thereof.35
- (2)
- The examination, in the light of present circumstances, of
the standards of neutrality set forth in the third article
of the “General Declaration of Neutrality of the American
Republics”, which was adopted at the Panama Meeting on
October 3, 1939.
- (3)
- The interchange of information regarding violations of
neutrality or subversive activities by nationals of
non-American countries or others in the territory and
jurisdiction of any or all of the American republics.
- (4)
- Consideration of the humanitarian activities which, in a
coordinated manner, can be and should be conducted by the
National [Page 203] Red Cross
Societies in the American republics for the benefit of the
victims of the European war.
II—Protection of the Peace of the
Western Hemisphere
Consideration of measures to be taken with a view to the preservation
of the integral sovereignty and peace of the nations of the western
hemisphere:
- (1)
- The study of the problems which will confront the American
republics in case the sovereignty, or control, now exercised
by non-American states over geographic regions of the
Americas is relinquished, lapses, or is materially
impaired.
- (2)
- The examination of the measures which have been or may be
proposed in order to insure the attainment of the objectives
set forth in the Declaration of Panama.
- (3)
- The consideration of the problems of continental
defense.
- (4)
- The examination of the machinery of inter-American
consultation36 with a view to determining
whether any steps should be taken at this time toward the
further development of that machinery in the light of the
requirements of the present situation.
III—Economic Cooperation
- (1)
- Consideration of the measures which have already been proposed
by the Inter-American Financial and Economic Advisory
Committee.
- (2)
- Examination of additional measures the adoption of which may
be desirable under present circumstances or which it may be
desired to refer to the Inter-American Financial and Economic
Advisory Committee for immediate analysis and
recommendation.