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elevating the organization to the rank and investing it with the duties 

 of a Ministry of Education for the twenty-one sovereign and equal 

 Nations of the American Continent. 



Finally, for fear lest something should be overlooked, the article con- 

 tains what may be considered a blanket clause, as, in addition to the 

 specific duties enumerated in clauses (a) , (6) , and (c) , the organization 

 is to "facilitate the interchange of ideas and information," not merely 

 among the Governments, but among the teachers of the continent, thus 

 going into direct contact with the leaders of educational thought in the 

 Americas. 



The article creates a duty under which the broadest shoulders are 

 likely to bend; yet more than this is required of the organization, for it is 

 "in general to serve the educational interests of the Americas." That is 

 to say, the organization is to give effect to the specific purposes enum- 

 erated in sections (a), (6), (c), and (d) of the article and, in addition, 

 it is to stand forth as the directing, if not the controlling, agent of the 

 general educational interests of the Americas. 



, Every friend of Pan Americanism who believes in the possibilities of 

 intellectual cooperation, and who sees in education the hope of mankind, 

 will welcome this article, and every friend of the Americas will express 

 the hope and the fervent prayer that the organization created to render 

 this recommendation effective will be such as to insure its success, lest 

 failure should seem to question the possibility of realizing these generous 

 and eminently feasible recommendations, which are, as it were, the 

 threshold to the successful intellectual cooperation of the Americas. 



ARTICLE 23. The Second Pan American Scientific Congress recommends, 

 in order to increase the study of international law, to popularize 

 its just principles, and to secure its observance and application 

 in the mutual relations of the Americas, that steps be taken to 

 improve and to enlarge library and reference facilities : 

 (a) By preparing and publishing a bibliography of international 

 law and related subjects, furnishing the names of publishers 

 and prices so far as these are obtainable, with special reference 

 to the needs of poorly endowed libraries; 



(6) By preparing and publishing a carefully prepared index or digest 

 of the various heads and subheads of international law, with 

 references to standard sources of authority under each head 

 and subhead thereof; 



(c) By collecting with the aid wherever possible of ministries of 

 foreign affairs and publishing from official copies thus secured, 

 in cheap and convenient form, all official documents, both 



