LATIN AMERICA: Foreign News

Chile: The Fifth Pan-American Congress will open at Santiago de Chile on March 25. The American Delegation will be headed by Henry P. Fletcher, Ambassador to Belgium and former Ambassador to Chile and Mexico.

The first All-American Conference was held in Washington in 1889 at the invitation of President Grover Cleveland. In the list of the American delegates was the name of Andrew Carnegie of New York.

The second conference was held in Mexico City in 1901 on the proposal of President McKinley. It was at this meeting of American representatives from the North and South Continents that it was decided to hold a Pan-American Congress every five years.

The third congress was held in Rio de Janeiro in 1906, and the fourth in Buenos Aires in 1910.

Chile: Some misapprehension is being caused by the absence from Santiago of the Bolivian Minister, and the Secretary of the Bolivian Legation, the former on " vacation " and the latter on "business." It is feared that the recent refusal of Bolivia to attend the Pan-American Congress on account of Chile's declining to reconsider the Treaty of 1904 (and give Bolivia a seaport) is about to cause a diplomatic rupture between the two countries.

Argentina: Honorio Pueyrredon, former Minister of Foreign Affairs and League of Nations delegate, accepted the post of Ambassador to the United States. Salvador: Alphonse Quinenez Melina was inaugurated as President, succeeding Jerge Melandez, President since March 1, 1919.