Abstract
American solidarity is a fact which no one doubts and which no one can doubt. Each and every one of us is ready to maintain and prove this solidarity in the face of any danger which, regardless of whence it comes, may threaten the independence or sovereignty of any State in this part of the world. For this we do not need any pacts. A pact is already made in our history.|We are resolved to resist with the same tenacity, either by preventive measures or by combined direct action, everything that implies a threat against the American order, every infiltration of men or ideas that reflects or tends to implant in our soil and in our spirit concepts foreign to our ideas, ideals that are antagonistic to ours, regimes that menace our liberties, theories that threaten the social and moral peace of our people, or political fantasies that cannot prosper under the sky of the Americas.|Such sentiment expressed by Dr. Jose Mario Cantilo, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Argentina, at the Lima Conference of 1938 is a far cry in the development of the International relationships of the Americas from the “Dog in the Manger” days of the nineteenth century. The American States have come through the turbulent "Big Stick" period, the era of “Dollar Diplomacy", and the "Big Brother" days of Wilson to the emergence of recognized equality in the "Good Neighbor" policy of Roosevelt and Hull.