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Aires meeting at length and announced

that in all the countries he visited on

tlie way back from Argentina he found

a most friendly feeling toward the

United States.

MET LEADING STATESMEN

“I had the honor and privilege of

meeting and conversing with the Presi

dents of Brazil, Uruguay, •Argentina.

Chile, Peru, Panama, Cuba and Haiti,

and I also met many of the leading

statesmen of South America, with whom

I discussed questions of national in

terest,” said the statement. "Every

where X found an earnest desire to

strengthen commercial, financial and

political relations with the United

States, and everywhere we went there

was a genuinely friendly attitude and

a complete absence of that suspicion

and distrust of the United States which

has, until recently, existed to a more

or less degree in some, at least, of

the Central and South American coun

tries. This is a very fortunate develop

ment. It is due primarily to the policies

and utterances of President Wilson and

to the suggestions made by the United

States for mutual guarantees of the ter

ritorial Integrity and political inde

pendence on all the American republics.

"Every leading statesman in South

America with whom I talked emphasized

the paramount importance of a merchant

marine under the flag of the United

States, or under the flags of the dif

ferent American nations, if American

financial and commercial relations are to

be enlarged upon an enduring founda

tion. The hope was expressed in every

country, and was voiced in the resolu

tions unanimously adopted by the Inter

How to cite this articleCómo citar este artículo

The Birmingham age-herald. (1916). Birmingham, Ala., 1916-05-05. Haiti in the American Press. Library of Congress, Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn85038485/1916-05-05/ed-1/?sp=1

ReferencesReferencias

Library of Congress, Chronicling America: The Birmingham age-herald, 1916-05-05.