Foreign News: At Lima

Representatives of the 21 independent States on the American continent met at Lima last week for their eighth Pan American Conference. Advertised purpose was to discuss common political, military and economic policies by which the "American Democracies" could oppose "European Dictatorships."

Some idea of how realistic might be the results of the democracy v. dictatorship discussions could be got from the character of the building in which the delegates sat down to business. It was the hall of the Peruvian Congress, Hispanic, charming, but a little small for the 136 delegates. The Congress has not...

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