Notes on 22 U.S.C. § 504 : US Code - Notes

Search Notes on 22 U.S.C. § 504 : US Code - Notes

(Apr. 10, 1941, ch. 49, 55 Stat. 133.)
PURPOSE OF ENACTMENT
The "whereas" clauses preceding the resolving words in Joint Res.
Apr. 10, 1941, provided as follows:
"Whereas our traditional policy has been to consider any attempt
on the part of non-American powers to extend their system to any
portion of this hemisphere as dangerous to the peace and safety not
only of this country but of the other American republics; and
"Whereas the American republics agreed at the Inter-American
Conference for the Maintenance of Peace held in Buenos Aires in
1936 and at the Eighth International Conference of American States
held in Lima in 1938 to consult with one another in the event that
the peace, security, or territorial integrity of any American
republic should be threatened; and
"Whereas the Meeting of the Foreign Ministers of the American
Republics at Panama October 3, 1939, resolved 'That in case any
geographic region of America subject to the jurisdiction of any non-
American state should be obliged to change its sovereignty and
there should result therefrom a danger to the security of the
American Continent, a consultative meeting such as the one now
being held will be convoked with the urgency that the case may
require':".