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SHORTLY after the Pan-American Conference in Havana last summer, Mr. Roosevelt was reported to have made a statement in which he said that the embargo then recently placed on certain exports from America was to be regarded as an American defence measure, following upon the spiritual unity which had been established in the Americas by that meeting of representatives of the American Republics. While pan-American unity thus appeared to have been held by the President of the United States as more of an accomplished fact than ever before, there were other, observers, well acquainted with conditions in the Latin Americas, who did not share his optimistic view of the possibilities of securing cooperation from Central and South America in any and every action which the United States might elect to take in the defence of the western hemisphere against the aggression of non-American, or in other words against the Axis, powers. One well-informed writer, indeed, went so far as to say of the Latin Americas: “They are not interested in fighting for democracy per se, or for the integrity of the hemisphere as Washington sees it.”
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Cultural Unity in the Americas. Nature 146, 673–674 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/146673a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/146673a0