For better relations with our Latin American neighbors

Part I Engush Version

[Parte I. Version Inglesa]

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

DIVISION OF INTERCOURSE AND EDUCATION Second edition of Publications Nos. 7 and 8

A JOURNEY TO SOUTH AMERICA

BY

ROBERT BACON

WASHINGTON, D. C. 1916

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Copyright, 1916, by the Cabnegee Endowment for International Peace, Washington, D. C.

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Preface

No small part of the work of the Division of Intercourse and Education of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace is done through the medium of international visits by representative men. Experience has already confirmed the reasonable assumption that such visits are useful, and in high degree helpful, in building up a spirit of international friendship and in developing international understanding. A careful reading of Mr. Robert Bacon's Report of the details of his trip to South America in the summer and autumn of 19 13 will show precisely how such visits as his contribute to the peace and good order of the world. National ideals and national policies are carefully and sympathetically explained, not only to leading personalities in the countries visited, but also to large and representative audiences of teachers, merchants and men of affairs. The newspaper press is almost uniformly interested and helpful on occasions of this kind, and the visitor of distinction and of public service at home is made cordially and warmly welcome.

It is in high degree important to multiply such visits on the part of representative men in the various American republics. The barrier of language will be broken down, or surmounted, as a knowledge of English becomes more widespread in the South American countries, and as the ability to read, to speak and to write Spanish increases in the United States. Bonds of a common interest in finance and in commerce are already being forged between the peoples of the several American republics. These bonds will be followed and strengthened by others in due time. There will thus be developed a genuine American public opinion and a genuine American understanding and point of view, that will be common alike to the people of the United States and to those of the other republics to the south.

The first edition of Mr. Bacon's Report was published in two volumes, one in English and the other in Spanish, Portuguese and French. This edition now being exhausted, and the demand for the publication continuing, a second edition is published, in which the two versions are combined in one volume.

Nicholas Murray Butler,

Acting Director.

April 10, 191 6.

Contents

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Preface by Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler v

Note by Mr. Bacon x