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for the reciprocal knowledge of all our Republics, which is the only sure 

 base of firm relations and of harmonious progress, but for the development 

 of each one of them, and they would avoid internal controversies of a less 

 disinterested character and results which are often disastrous. In other 

 words, the purely scientific disquisitions of these great American assem- 

 blies can not only enlighten each one of the concurrent nations in solving 

 their own problems, but can suppress the element of passion which gen- 

 erally accompanies that process, thus constituting the most admirable 

 concert in the march of all the countries of America, by the most peaceful 

 paths, toward the highest spheres of progress that have ever been reached 

 by any continent of the earth. 



SALVADOR: HIS EXCELLENCY RAFAEL ZALDIVAR, ENVOY 

 EXTRAORDINARY AND MINISTER PLENIPOTENTIARY. 



Mr. Vice President, Mr. Secretary of State, Mr. President of the Congress, 

 Ladies and Gentlemen: 



At this very moment in the history of the civilized peoples of the world 

 the meeting of the Second Pan American Scientific Congress is indeed a 

 most fortunate event, as it represents the loftiest, most generous, and 

 practical ideals in all branches of progress, either scientific, economic, or 

 political, for the manifest benefit of the most sacred, moral and material 

 interests of the free nations of the New World. 



At no other time, perhaps, could such a noble and great ejffort of sound 

 patriotism and of the learned minds of the three Americas be more 

 welcome. It is an effort to create legitimate bonds based on right and 

 equitable principles that are in accord with the loftiest conception of the 

 science and the philosophy of law in order that there may be attained 

 stable peace, a higher degree of culture, and the possible aggrandizement 

 that the American Republics strive for, a peace, culture, and aggrandize- 

 ment based on their unimpaired independence in the exercise of full 

 sovereignty honestly guaranteed and respected both in the realm of 

 international public law and in the normal life of active and effective 

 political relations maintained by their respective governments. 



The Government of the Republic of Salvador enthusiastically supports 

 the genuine and beneficent Pan American ideals, because they must con- 

 stitute in reality a powerful force for the defense of the life — a dignified 

 and wholly unimpaired life — of all the nations of the American continents 

 without regard to their elements and resources of material power; and 

 as a token of what I have stated Salvador comes, represented by its 

 delegation, to this brilliant gathering of the loyally pacifist and progres- 

 sive minds of America with the earnest hope that its intelligent and well' 



