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Show TWENTY NATIONS DISCUSS RESULTS OF EUROPEAN WAR Objections Made Against Belligerent Warships in Waters of Americans. Washington. Twenty nations of the western, hemisphere on Tuesday expressed ex-pressed their disapproval of the effects ef-fects of operations of the European belligerents in the waters of the two Americas, and appointed a commission commis-sion of diplomats to formulate practical prac-tical steps contemplating a more vigorous vig-orous assertion of the rights of neutrals. neu-trals. Gathered around an oval table in the handsome Pan-American union building, the diplomats of American republics, most of them under specific Instructions from their governments, urged united action by the nations of this hemisphere to restore trade and remove some of the burdens placed on commerce by the European war. It was the first national conference of peutral nations which has assembled In any part of tlio globe since the Eu-ropeah Eu-ropeah war began, and irrespective of Its possible accomplishments during the present conflict, was regarded as the birth of a new movement in international in-ternational law for the definition of the right of the neutral as opposed to the right of the belligerent. Underlying the several speeches m&ue by the diplomats was a note of warning that the presence of belligerent belliger-ent warships In the western hemisphere hemi-sphere already had produced grave complications between American nations na-tions and European powers, demonstrating demon-strating the vital need of Pan-Ameri-' can solidarity. |