Excerpt from Pan American Union: Peace, Friendship, Commerce Latin America, a wonderland of progress, resources, and opportunity. The second chapter, The Pan American Union, elaborates upon the statement contained in the opening sentence of this introduction and gives interesting facts which will surprise many persons. The third, The Pan American Building, tells the story of the beautiful and practical edifice which is the per manent home of the Union. The fourth, Pan America and Peace, reviews the remarkable honor record of the American nations in behalf of Peace and its persuasive hand-maiden Arbitration. The fifth, Pan American Speeches, is a collection of historical and notable utterances by distinguished statesmen upon Pan American solidarity of interest and unity of purpose. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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