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Show U.S.,Cuba Seek Safety Band For Encircling New World PANAMA CITY, Panama, Sept. 29 (UP The United States and Cuba, seeking a "salety band" to safeguard the new world from Europe's war, were expected to submit a compromise program to the pan-American neutrality conference con-ference today. United States Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles and Cuban Secretary of State Miguel Angel Campa conferred as a special subcommittee sub-committee to map final plans for a "safety band" expected to extend ex-tend 30 miles from the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of all nations, except Canada, in the western hemisphere, ' 7 Delegate of the 21 American republics, representing 264,000,000 persons, anticipated little opposition opposi-tion to the proposal's general term. However, a wide divergency of views was seen in discussions of proposals concerning hemispheric neutrality, activities of belligerent submarines within the safety lone, and economic "black lists." Extended Ex-tended debate on these issues was expected to delay a final draft of the conference's stand beyond the hoped-for adjournment Monday. Argentina and Mexico suggested plans for future pan-American meetings If any nation's European business or national sovereignty was threatened by th war. |