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Title: Latin America and the United States
Addresses by Elihu Root

Author: Elihu Root

Editor: Robert Bacon
James Brown Scott

Release Date: May 30, 2009 [EBook #29003]

Language: English

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LATIN AMERICA AND THE
UNITED STATES

ADDRESSES
BY
ELIHU ROOT

COLLECTED AND EDITED BY
ROBERT BACON
AND
JAMES BROWN SCOTT

[Illustration]

CAMBRIDGE
HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS
LONDON: HUMPHREY MILFORD
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
1917

COPYRIGHT, 1917
HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS

CONTENTS

Page
INTRODUCTORY NOTE ix
FOREWORD xiii

SPEECHES IN BRAZIL

RIO DE JANEIRO
At the Third Conference of the American Republics:
HIS EXCELLENCY JOAQUIM NABUCO, President of the
Conference 3
MR. ROOT, Honorary President 6
MR. MARIANO CORNEJO, Delegate from Peru 11
HONORABLE A. J. MONTAGUE, Delegate from the
United States. 13
HIS EXCELLENCY BARON DO RIO BRANCO, Honorary
President 13

At the Banquet of the Minister for Foreign Affairs:
HIS EXCELLENCY BARON DO RIO BRANCO 14
MR. ROOT 15
DR. JAMES DARCY 16
MR. ROOT 17

In the Federal Senate:
SENATOR RUY BARBO