Our country and its resources; . of the Amer-icas, a large salon 100 feet inlength and 70 feet in width. Onthis floor will also be found theGoverning Hoard room and the rear of the main structure isa beautiful sunken garden, with a pool forming the central feature,and the building of the Pan-Amer-ican Annex forms the tile effects are marvelous. It may well be asked what is themeaning of this magnificent build-ing? What i< its history, organiza-tion ami purpose? The Pan-American Union (for-merly known as the InternationalBureau of the American Republics)was establis
Our country and its resources; . of the Amer-icas, a large salon 100 feet inlength and 70 feet in width. Onthis floor will also be found theGoverning Hoard room and the rear of the main structure isa beautiful sunken garden, with a pool forming the central feature,and the building of the Pan-Amer-ican Annex forms the tile effects are marvelous. It may well be asked what is themeaning of this magnificent build-ing? What i< its history, organiza-tion ami purpose? The Pan-American Union (for-merly known as the InternationalBureau of the American Republics)was established in the year 1890 inaccordance with the resolutionspassed at the first Pan-Americanconference, held at Washington in1889-90, and presided over by , then Tinted State- Secre-tary of State. It was indorsed andcontinued by resolutions of the sec-ond conference at Mexico in 1901;the third, at Rio de Janeiro, in the fourth, at Buenos Aire-, in1910. Its reorganization under thepresent administration dates practi-. PATI0. PAN-AMERICAN UNION. WASHINGTON. D. C THE PAN-AMERICAN UNION 50H rally from January, 1907, followingthethird conference, which was at-tended by Elihu Root, then Secre-tary of State. The Pan-American Union is theinternational organization and officemaintained by the twenty-one Amer-ican republics, as follows: Argen-tina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colom-bia. Costa Rica, Cuba, DominicanRepublic, Ecuador, Guatemala,Haiti, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua,Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Salvador,United States, Uruguay and Vene-zuela. It is devoted to the develop-ment and advancement of commerce,friendly intercourse and good under-standing among these countries. Itis supported by quotas contributedby each country, based upon thepopulation. Its affairs are admin-istered by a director general andassistant director, elected by andresponsible to a Governing Board,which is composed of the Secretaryof State of the United States andthe diplomatic representatives inWashingto
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