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Recent Changes in the Inter-American System

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 May 2009

Edgar S. Furniss Jr
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Despite the fact that the Ninth International Conference of American States was overshadowed in press and popular mind by the dramatic explosion that rocked the conference city of Bogota in April, there can be little doubt that the outstanding achievement of the conference was not the largely sterile anti-Communist resolution, but rather the new Charter of the Americas. With their signature to this Charter the delegates of the twenty-oneindependent republics have completed a reorganization of the inter-American framework which was begun at least fifteen years ago

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International Organization , Volume 2 , Issue 3 , September 1948 , pp. 455 - 468
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Copyright © The IO Foundation 1948

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References

1 Pan American Union, Report by Director General to Governing Board on Inter-American Conference on Problems of War and Peace, Washington, Pan American Union, 1945, p.6Google Scholar.

3 For further details on the fitting of regional arrangements into the world organization see the following two excellent articles; Reid, Helen Dwight, “Regionalism under the United Nations Charter,” International Concllation, no. 419, 03 1946, p. 120–127Google Scholar, and Allen, Ward, “Regional Arrangements and the United Nations”, Department of State Bulletin, XIV, p. 923–927 959Google Scholar.

3 Nicaragua, Whose govermaent was unrecognized, was not invited. An Eciadoran revolntion during the conference resulted n the absence of accredited delegatesat the time of singning. For text of the trcaty see Internatonal Organization, II, p.202–6.

4 Contained in the words of Article 6, “…an aggression which is not an armed attack …” is a silght bow to the efforts of Cuban delegate Gullermo Belt, who wanted aggression to ‘be deiesd to include economic measuires. Belt was voted down 15–5, receiving support from the delegates of Bolvia, Ecuador, Guatemala, and Venezuela.

5 New York Times, Stptember 5,1947.

6 ibid.

7 For text of the Charter, see this issue, p.586.

8 New York Times, January 16,1946.