CONFERENCE OF AMERICAN REPUBLICS IN
        MEXICO CITY AND DISCUSSIONS WITH 
LATIN AMERICAN AMBASSADORS IN WASHINTON
 
        Should Prime Minister Churchill or Marshall Stalin 
raise any question, about either of the above subjects, 
the following background material may be helpful.
 
Mexico City Conference
        The Conference, which will convene February 21, is 
not a regular Consultative Meeting of American Foreign
Ministers. It is being held, however, in accordance with 
the practice of the American republics to consult together 
on matters of mutual interest. No such general meeting 
having been held since that at Rio de Janeiro in January, 
1942, a demand for a meeting has been growing during the 
past year in the other American republics. The agenda 
for the Conferenoe is as follows:
 
     I.     Further cooperative measures for the prosecution 
            of the war to complete victory.
 
     II.   Consideration of problems of international 
            organization for peace and security.
 
          A.  World organization
 
          B. The further development of the inter-
               American system, and its relations to 
               world organization.
 
     III.  Consideration of the economic and social 
            problems of the Americas.
 
          A.  War and transitional Economic cooperation
 
          B.   Consideration of methods of further coopera-
                 tion for the improvement of economic and 
                 social conditions of the peoples of the 
                 Americas with the end of raising their 
                 general standard of living.
 
     IV. Other factors of general and immediate concern 
           to the participating Governments.
 
Attention may be given to the Argentine problem.
 
       With respect to plans for world organization, it is 
the objective of this Government to have a full discussion
 
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