The Emergency Advisory Committee for Political Defense

1944 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 218-241
Author(s):  
Carl B. Spaeth ◽  
William Sanders
Keyword(s):  
Advisory Committee ◽  
Political Organization ◽  
American Experience ◽  
American States ◽  
Testing Ground ◽  
Pan American ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Post War ◽  
The Right ◽  
American Union

The war and the present preoccupation with post-war plans have brought about a general awareness of the fact that the Americas have been a testing ground for the orderly organization of relations among sovereign states, especially in the development of cooperative principles and techniques. The construction of a political organization within which these principles and techniques could be consolidated has not, however, characterized the American experience. The Pan American Union, for example, is expressly denied the right to consider political or controversial questions, and proposals for the creation of a “league” or “association” of American states has met with courteous but definite coolness.

The IX Inter-American Indian Congress

1986 ◽  
Vol 80 (3) ◽  
pp. 682-685 ◽  
Author(s):  
Russel Lawrence Barsh
Keyword(s):  
American Indian ◽  
Mexico City ◽  
Technical Assistance ◽  
Indian Institute ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
International Convention ◽  
Scientific Investigations ◽  
American States ◽  
Pan American ◽  
American Union

Forty-five years ago, U.S. Indian Commissioner John Collier helped persuade the members of the Pan American Union (now the Organization of American States) to establish the Inter-American Indian Institute “to elucidate the problems affecting the Indian groups within their respective jurisdictions, and to cooperate with one another, on a basis of mutual respect for the inherent rights of each to exercise absolute liberty in solving the ‘Indian Problem’ in America.” Operating under an international convention concluded in November 1940 and governed by a board of 21 state representatives, the Mexico City-based Institute is charged with “scientific investigations,” technical assistance to national Indian agencies and “the training of men and women experts devoted to the problems of the Indian.” Institute policy is also guided by an Inter-American Indian Congress of governmental administrators of Indian affairs, which is convened every four years.

Organization of American States

1950 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 700-702
Keyword(s):  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
Special Committee ◽  
Organization Of American States ◽  
American Council ◽  
American States ◽  
Pan American ◽  
American Union

The Inter-American Council of Jurists, created pursuant to Article 57 of the Charter of the Organization of American States, held its first meeting at Rio de Janeiro from May 22 to June 15, 1950 with nineteen states represented. Convoked by the Council of the Organization of American States, in accordance with the charter, its agenda of fourteen topics was prepared by the Pan American Union in cooperation with a special committee of the OAS Council.

United States Opposition to Canadian Membership in the Pan American Union: A Canadian View

1961 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Douglas G. Anglin
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Prime Minister ◽  
Rio Grande ◽  
Organization Of American States ◽  
Full Membership ◽  
American States ◽  
Secretary Of State ◽  
Pan American ◽  
American Union

After years of hesitation, Canada is now seriously considering full membership in the Organization of American States (OAS). The initiative for this shift in policy has come, not from officials in die Department of External Affairs, but principally from Prime Minister John Diefenbaker and especially die Secretary of State for External Affairs, Howard Green. Both have returned within die past year from visits soudi of the Rio Grande critical of Canada's traditional neglect of its interests in Latin America.

The Pan American Union at the Sixth International Conference of American States

1928 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 764-775
Author(s):  
William Manger
Keyword(s):  
Western Hemisphere ◽  
The Political ◽  
International Conference ◽  
American States ◽  
Differences Of Opinion ◽  
Sixth International Conference ◽  
Pan American ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
American Union ◽  
Sixth International

A clearer definition of the scope and purposes of the Pan American Union and a reaffirmation of faith and confidence in the purposes of the institution and the principles which it represents, are among the outstanding accomplishments of the Sixth International Conference of American States, which met at Habana from January 16 to February 20,1928. The discussions by the committee appointed to consider the organization of the Union demonstrated anew the interest of the representatives of the twenty-one Republics in the institution and their desire to make it of the greatest possible influence in cementing the bonds of economic, social and cultural union between the nations of the Western Hemisphere. Throughout the proceedings it was clearly evident that all the delegates were animated by these motives. Differences of opinion that developed were not of a fundamental character, affecting the existence of the Union itself, but related to the extent of the powers to be granted to the institution and to matters of internal organization. At the same time the results of the deliberations definitely settled the doubts and possible misunderstandings that had previously existed with respect to the extent of the political authority that the Union might exercise.

scholarly journals OAS and Canada

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Maxwell Gill
Keyword(s):  
Regional Development ◽  
Organization Of American States ◽  
Member States ◽  
American States ◽  
History Of ◽  
Pan American ◽  
American Union ◽  
Different Levels

The history of Canadian interaction with American states both unilaterally and through the Pan-American Union and Organization of American States is reviewed. The author argues that Canada has historically and continuously supported the OAS, and its member states, at a distance. Canada demonstrates a dichotomy of involvement; in few areas, Canada is deeply involved, and in many other areas, Canada is not at all involved. Canada's pattern of involvement appears to suggest a focus on non-reciprocal regional development as opposed to reciprocating involvement. This is dispite several calls from different levels of government that a broader, more involved level of involement would serve the OAS and its member states better.

French Rhineland Policy at the Paris Peace Conference, 1919

1978 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 623-648 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert McCrum
Keyword(s):  
Buffer Zone ◽  
Foreign Policies ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Paris Peace Conference ◽  
Post War ◽  
The Right

The victory of the Allied powers in November 1918 gave the French a unique opportunity to establish a secure frontier on the Rhine. Throughout the peace conference that followed, the politicians, generals and intellectuals of the right who perceived this opportunity most clearly conducted a vigorous campaign to achieve France's ‘natural frontier.’ The separation of the Rhineland from Germany had three incontestable advantages for France. It would diminish Germany's superiority in population; it would establish a buffer zone between the two countries, and it would render impossible a German concentration of troops west of the Rhine itself. Such a ‘paix française’, however, would have been insensitive to the main consideration of post-war diplomacy: the creation of a lasting European peace that satisfied the conflicting foreign policies of the major allies. Chiefly to preserve the victorious alliance, Clemenceau, who at first had favoured the demands of the right, was forced to abandon the proposed separation and to accept a compromise. The French generals like Foch and Mangin who had worked to ‘deprussify’ the Rhineland did not realize their dream. The disputed territory, though occupied by a temporary, inter-allied force, remained German.

The Inter-American System

1947 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 156-161
Keyword(s):  
Social Economic ◽  
Political Organization ◽  
American System ◽  
Pan American ◽  
American Union

As an independent regional non-political organization, the Pan-American Union, with its headquarters in Washington, has functioned for over fifty years to develop cooperation in social, economic and cultural affairs among the American Republics.

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