Page Pan American Highway Organizations. Alaskan International Highway Commission... Advisory Committee on Social Questions of the League of Nations.. Emergency Committee for the Provisional Administration of European SECTION IV. PERMANENT INTERNATIONAL BUREAUS, UNIONS, AND SIMILAR ORGANIZATIONS OF WHICH THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA International Bureau of Weights and Measures.. International Bureau for the Publication of Customs Tariffs. SECTION V.—Permanent COMMISSIONS OF INQUIRY PROVIDED FOR BY TREATIES FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF PEACE AND TREATIES OF CON- Page SECTION I INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES AND CONGRESSES IN WHICH THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA PARTICIPATED, INCLUDING THE NAMES OF AMERICAN DELEGATES AND SUMMARIES OF THE PROCEEDINGS SECOND MEETING OF THE MINISTERS OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS OF THE AMERICAN REPUBLICS FOR CONSULTATION UNDER THE INTER-AMERICAN AGREEMENTS OF BUENOS AIRES AND LIMA (Habana, Cuba, July 21-30, 1940) Delegate: Cordell Hull, LL.D., L.H.D., Secretary of State. Adolf A. Berle, Jr., LL.D., Assistant Secretary of State; Green H. Hackworth, Legal Adviser, Department of State; Harry D. White, Ph. D., Director of Monetary Research, Department of the Treasury; Grosvenor M. Jones, Assistant Director, Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, Department of Commerce; Leslie A. Wheeler, Director, Office of Foreign Agricultural Relations, Department of Agriculture. Secretary General: Warren Kelchner, Ph. D., Chief, Division of International Conferences, Department of State. Assistants to the Secretary of State: Cecil W. Gray, Assistant to the Secretary of State; Birney Imes, Editor and Publisher, Commercial Dispatch, Columbus, Mississippi. Press Officer: Michael J. McDermott, Chief, Division of Current Information, Department of State. Secretaries: Ellis O. Briggs, Assistant Chief, Division of the American Republics, Department of State; Emilio G. Collado, Ph. D., Division of the American Republics, Department of State. Assistant Secretary: Guillermo Suro, Assistant Chief, Central Translating Office, Department of State. This Meeting, the second in a series inaugurated at Panamá in 1939 following the outbreak of the European war, was held in accordance with procedure established at the Inter-American Conference for the Maintenance of Peace (Buenos Aires, 1936) and elaborated at the Eighth International Conference of American States (Lima, 1938), providing for consultations of the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the American republics or their representatives whenever a state of emergency shall exist or whenever the peace of the Western Hemisphere shall be threatened. 1 The First Consultative Meeting held in Panamá, September 23-October 3, 1939, took cognizance of the possibility that the occasion might arise when an attempt might be made to transfer the sovereignty of a geographic region of the Americas now subject to the jurisdiction of a non-American state to another non-American state. The Panamá Meeting, deciding that such an attempt would constitute a danger to the security of the Americas, provided that there should be a consultation whenever such a possibility seemed imminent. During the first half of 1940 the military defenses of Norway, the Netherlands, and Belgium had collapsed. On June 17, 1940 the Government of France requested an armistice from Germany. This act was of special interest to the governments of the American republics in view of the fact that an attempt might be made to transfer the territory of the French colonial possessions in this hemisphere to another jurisdiction. It was apparent that circumstances had arisen which were envisaged in the resolution of the Panamá Meeting regarding the possible transfer of territory to another non-American state. It was clear, therefore, that there was an obligation on the part of the Ministers of Foreign Affairs to consult on this new possible threat to the security and peace of the Western Hemisphere. In accordance with a resolution adopted at the Panamá Meeting, Habana was selected as the seat for the consultation, and invitations were extended by the Secretary of State of Cuba to the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the other American republics. Each of the 21 American republics was represented either by its Minister of Foreign Affairs or by his personal representative. The Director General of the Pan American Union also attended, assisted by members of his staff. The agenda of the Meeting, which was formulated by the Governing Board of the Pan American Union, was as follows: I. NEUTRALITY Consideration of the rights and duties of the belligerents and of the American republics, including: 1 See Conference Series 49. |