. Book of the Royal blue . ,., ;.;.,. •■. AMETiTCAN \VASllIN<iTON. D. t. curves, detailing the features ni theinterior construction, the ettect is tosuggest the dominant characteristics ofthe Anglo-Saxon and I,atin races—strength and beauty. In style it issevere Spanish, tempered by bits ofdetail reminiscent of renaissance mod-els, with minor ornamental sectionscopied in part from the Aztec orig-inals, thus carrying out in the archi-tecture of tlie building the Latin-Amer-ican idea. present day when it has arri\ed at aliigh state of business efficiency, a re-sult due in a great
. Book of the Royal blue . ,., ;.;.,. •■. AMETiTCAN \VASllIN<iTON. D. t. curves, detailing the features ni theinterior construction, the ettect is tosuggest the dominant characteristics ofthe Anglo-Saxon and I,atin races—strength and beauty. In style it issevere Spanish, tempered by bits ofdetail reminiscent of renaissance mod-els, with minor ornamental sectionscopied in part from the Aztec orig-inals, thus carrying out in the archi-tecture of tlie building the Latin-Amer-ican idea. present day when it has arri\ed at aliigh state of business efficiency, a re-sult due in a great measure to the un-ceasing efforts of the present directorgeneral. John In 1889 James(I. Blaine, in his capacity of Secretaryof State of the United .States, invitedthe governments of the different Latin-.\merican countries to send delegatesto Washington to discuss with col-leagues from the United .^^tates mat-ters of political and economic interests 12 THE PAN-AMERICAN UNION BUILDING AT WASHINGTON. THE 1>ATU>, rAN-AMERICAN UNION , \VASHIN( :T(,IN, D. V. to the peoples of all America. Thegovernments accepted the invitationand thus the first conference of theAmerican republics, with James as presiding officer, was broughtabout. The meeting was held duringthe winter of 1S,S9-1890. The objectof this conference was to discuss mat-ters of mutual interest, so as to arriveat a mutual understanding, and it wasfrom a resolution adopted by the dele-gates that the Bureau ni AmericanRepublics came into being as a per-manent home for the office de\oted tothe furthering of peace and good willamong all American people. Succeed-ing conferences held in Mexico in thewinter of llMll--? and Rio de Janeiro in19(»6 confirmed the purpose of thebureau. The fourth international con-ference of the American republics wa*held in Buenos Aires, during July andAugust, 1910. For years the staft of the bureau washoused in a modest building cippositethe State, War and Na
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