Conferences: Pan American
BRITISH MBASSY,
Y/ASHIHGlOH
M l&6h 1959.
HO.886.
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I have the honour to transmit
to Your Lordship the text of a lwttW
delivered to a large audience on Maroh
6th by Mr. Adolf Berla, an Assistant
Secretary of State.      ?dr. Berlo1 a
position in the Stete Department is rather
curious; he resigned in the autumn but his
resignation was not accepted, and he me
asked to stay on and go to the Lima
Conference as part of the Delegation* He
still has a room in the Department bat I
believe he only /pes there about once in
ten days*
2* The lecture is on the theme of
democracy and it contains nothing very new.
Indeed I would not have troubled Your Lordship
with it but for the fact that Part III gives
Mr* Berle* s account of the Lima Conference, for
Whieh he claims very definite success• In his
Opinion the Declaration of Lima provides for
a method of consultation whereby a threat
of penetration of the Caribbean area through
German force or Gensan intrigue oould be met
by working out common measures between the
American Republics end the defense could then
ft* Vlaeount Halifax, I*0*# FRHM:VALM:MS
The Right Honourable
bo/

bo of footed without thw united St a toe Government
having to threaten the sovereignty of any country
and without tho Unitod states incurring tho
suspicion of   masked imperialism.
I havo tho honour to bo,
with; the highest reaped*
My Lord,
Tour Lordship's moat obedient,
humble servant,