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would result in the establishment in those countries of governments 
      in harmony with national socialist doctrines. In support of this 
      supposition, one need only to recall the political evolution 
      in those states which, having fallen from time to time under 
      the domination of Napoleon, went so far as to furnish troops 
      and to apply the "Continental system" against Great 
      Britain.
 
      
 
 
With Europe in the grip of a totalitarian ideology, little 
      time would elapse before such ideas established themselves firmly 
      in at least some of the States of Latin America. The discussions 
      at the Lima Conference in December 1938 provide not only sufficient 
      evidence of the reality of this danger but also of some indication 
      of the suspicions and differences of outlook existing in South 
      America, which might be exploited in such a way as to render 
      fruitless the efforts of the United States to unite the Western 
      Hemisphere in self-defense against the intrusion of foreign influences 
      and propaganda, or even as to turn those efforts against their 
      originator by raising the cry of "Yangui Imperialismo".
 
      
 
 
It cannot be overlooked that many of the Republics