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Show IJUUERICJUVS ABROAD H0IRB1GT0N Embassadors Herrick anH Page Celebrate the Day in Paris and Rome. PA.RIS, Feb. 21. Tho ministers to France from tho South and Central American republics were guests today at a luncheon in celebration of "Washington's "Wash-ington's birthday, given "by Myron T. Herrick, tho United States embassador. All tho legations except those of Mexico Mex-ico and Haiti were represented. "Embassador Herriclc, in a short spooch. alluded to tho. common problem or self-governing pooples. -whether they lived north, or south of tho isthmus of Panama. "In' order to attain, success in solving these problems ' he said, "it is essential that we understand ono another and do not permit outsido influence in-fluence to alter our reciprocal relations, jtfov? and then we read in the newspapers newspa-pers or in a book grave -warnlnga addressed, ad-dressed, to tho Latin-American states to tho effect that tho United States desires de-sires their territories and is seeking to, thrvart their interests, also that hor influence is selfish and dangerous. " The embassador then quoted President Presi-dent Wilson's recent utterances, declaring de-claring that the United States does " not seok an additional foot of torri-torv torri-torv bv conquest. "I beliove," ho said, 4"that President "Wilson truly; expressed ex-pressed tho sentiment, of tho American poople." |