1 Pan American Union, International Conferences of American States, 2nd Supp. 1942–1954, p. 142 (1958); T.I.A.8., No. 1838; 43 A.J.I.L. Supp. 53 (1949).

2 Convention for the Maintenance, Preservation and Reestablishment of Peace, Buenos Aires, Dec. 23, 1936. U. S. Treaty Series, No. 922; 31 A.J.I.L. Supp. 53 (1937).

3 Second Meeting of Ministers of Foreign Affairs, Havana, July 21–30, 1940, Final Act: Declaration XV on Reciprocal Assistance and Cooperation for the Defense of the Nations of the Americas. 3 Dept. of State Bulletin 127 at 136 (1940); 35 A.J.I.L. Supp. 15 (1941).

4 Seventh Meeting of Ministers of Foreign Affairs, San José, Costa Rica, August, 1960. The two opening paragraphs of the Declaration of San José, adopted Aug. 28, 1960, read as follows:

“The Seventh Meeting of Consultation of Ministers of Foreign Affairs

“1. Condemns emphatically the intervention or the threat of intervention, even when conditional, by an extracontinental power in the affairs of the American republics and declares that the acceptance of a threat of extracontinental intervention by any American state jeopardizes American solidarity and security, wherefor the Organization of American States is under obligation to disapprove it and reject it with equal vigor;

“2. Rejects, also, the attempt of the Sino-Soviet powers to make use of the political, economic, or social situation of any American state, inasmuch as that attempt is capable of destroying hemispheric unity and jeopardizing the peace and the security of the hemisphere;” (43 Dept. of State Bulletin 407 (1960).)

But strong as was the condemnation in general terms of the existing conditions in Cuba, none of the ten resolutions adopted at the Meeting mentioned the name of Cuba specifically.

5 Art. 6: “ If the inviolability or the integrity of the territory or the sovereignty or political independence of any American State should lie affected by an aggression which is not armed attack or by an extra-continental or intra-continental conflict, or by any other fact or situation that might endanger the peace of America, the Organ of Consultation shall meet immediately in order to agree on the measures which must be taken in case of aggression to assist the victim of the aggression or, in any case, the measures which should be taken for the common defense and for the maintenance of the peace and security of the Continent.”

6 Organization of American States, Doc. 68 (English) Rev., Jan. 31, 1962. OAS Official Records OEA/ Ser. F/11.8 (English). Reprinted below, p. 601.