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Inter-American System

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 May 2009

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The fifth meeting of the Foreign Ministers of the American Republics was held at Petropolis, Brazil, from August 15 to September 2, 1947. The main task of the conference was to translate into more permanent form the system of inter American collective security established by the Act of Chapultepec. This act, drawn up as a temporary war measure by the Inter-American Conference on Problems of War and Peace in March 1945, had for the first time envisaged the use of force by the inter-American system.

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International Organizations: Summary of Activities: III. Regional Organizations
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Copyright © The IO Foundation 1948

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References

1 For text of the Act of Chapultepec, see Department of State Bulletin, XIII, p. 339Google Scholar.

2 New York Times, August 15, 18, and 19, 1947.

3 Ibid., August 19, 1947.

4 For the text of resolution see this issue. p.206–7.

5 See New York Times, August 23, 1947; also Report on the Results of the Conference Submitted to the Governing Body of the Pan American Union by the Director-General, Pan American Union Congress and Conference Series 53, Washington, 1947.

6 For map of the “security zone”, see Pan American Union Bulletin, LXXXI, 10, 1947, p. 540Google Scholar.

7 For text of the treaty see this issue, p. 202–6.

8 See Report of the Director-General, op.cit, p. 49–50.

9 For text see Ibid., p. 71.

10 Pan American Union Bulletin, LXXXI, 10, 1947, p. 543Google Scholar.

11 Ibid., p.575.

12 Ibid., July, 1947, p.397.

14 Christian Science Monitor, January 16, 1948.