Search -
For Better Relations With Our Latin American Neighbors; A Journey to South America
For Better Relations With Our Latin American Neighbors A Journey to South America Author:Robert Bacon General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1915 Original Publisher: Carnegie Endowment For International Peace Subjects: South America Description and travel South America Relations United States United States Relations South America South America United States History / Latin America / General History /... more » Latin America / South America History / United States / Revolutionary Period (1775-1800) History / Americas Law / International Political Science / International Relations / General Travel / South America / General Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: For Better Relations with Our Latin American Neighbors I. PRELIMINARY OBSERVATIONS In a letter to the Trustees of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace I reported very briefly the principal matters of interest in a journey to Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Chile and Peru, undertaken as the representative of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, in pursuance of an invitation received, under date of April I, 1913, from Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, director of the Division of Intercourse and Education, and a letter of instructions, dated July 20, 1913, from the Honorable Elihu Root, the President of the Endowment. In this more detailed account of the journey I have tried to tell in narrative form just what was done in each city, for in that way, perhaps, better than in any other, it is possible to give an impression of the extreme kindness of the reception which was everywhere extended to me, as the representative of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and of the cordial sympathy and interest manifested on every side in the work and purposes of the Endowment. The friendly attitude of the press in all ...« less