The Pan American peace machinery

Abstract

Since the attainment of the independence of the Latin American republics, the state of mind of the Western continent relative to international relations has been radically different from that of the Old World. The American conception has been one of a community rather than of a fortuitous geographical group of states. In the main the Americans--more particularly the Latin Americans--have thought of each other as collaborators rather than as rivals, even since their own regional nationalisms have become distinct; their statesmen and writers have extended this partnership to in- clude the Anglo-Saxon republic of the North.