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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 May 2017
The members of the Central American Peace Conference, held at Washington in 1907, primarily intent upon devising all possible ways and means of maintaining permanent peace in the Isthmus, sought to introduce into the treaties which resulted from the Conference not only those means and recourses which experience had shown would preserve good understanding and harmony among the five states, but, more particularly, they endeavored to find new methods which would strengthen the desideratum of the Conference by eliminating the causes of civil or interstate wars which might in the future occur in the Central American countries.
Naturally, the arsenal to which the Conference had to turn for the new arms to combat the causes of and prevent all war and revolution, could be none other than historical experience and the principles of international law.
Translated from the original Spanish by Pedro Capó-Rodriguez.
1 See article in the Century for October, 1915, by Valentine, Lincoln G., entitled “Meddling with our Neighbors,” p. 801 Google Scholar, at p. 807.—Ed.
2 Proceedings of the Society for 1914, pp. 11–12. ED.
3 The author has fallen into error in attributing this statement to Mr. Root. The language he quotes is that of Mr. Lincoln G. Valentine, the author of the article entitled “ Meddling with our Neighbors,” printed in the Century, ib., see p. 807.—Ed.
4 See the editorial comment on this question which appeared in this Journal for April, 1916, p. 344, giving the status of the matter as it existed at that time. Ed.
