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> A unanimously passed resolution recommending legislation to prevent foreigners resident in the Americas from exercising collective political rights claimed for them by their countries of origin. Under this restriction it is doubtful whether even a U. S. citizen resident in a Latin American State would be allowed to exercise his absentee vote in the U. S. Hence the U. S. delegation voted for a measure which, if passed, would probably be most unpopular at home. But the measure's chief benefit was obviously to Argentina, Brazil and Chile, where large German and Italian blocs have been agitating for minority rights.

>-A resolution unanimously condemning "all persecutions from racial or religious motives which place a number of human beings in the impossibility of obtaining a decent livelihood."

>A recommendation that all American ministers of finance meet annually to study inter-American financial and economic problems, where a scheme to reduce the dependency of many American nations on the business of European dictator States may be worked out.

>Recommendations that a contest be held for an intercontinental hymn of peace and that the portraits of great patriots of all American nations be hung in each other's schools.