SEVENTEENTH STREET AND CONSTITUTION AVENUE NW., WASHINGTON, D. C., U. S. A. CABLE ADDRESS FOR UNION AND BULLETIN "PAU." WASHINGTON 1932 English edition, in all countries of the Pan American Union, $2.50 per year 44 Portuguese edition, 2.00 64 An ADDITIONAL CHARGE of 75 cents per year, on each edition, for subscriptions in countries outside the Pan American Union. Single copies, any edition, 25 cents each. The Essentials of Pan Americanism: An Address by Dr. Orestes Ferrara The Achievements of the Pan American Union: A Letter by John Bassett Washington's Influence on the Early Spirit of Independence in Brazil.... By Annie D'Armond Marchant, Assistant Editor, Boletim da União Pan-Americana Washington at the Centenary of Bolívar: Statue and Mementos in Caracas Courtesy of the George Washington Bicentennial Commission. Bust by Houdon GEORGE WASHINGTON "In honoring his memory we are in a very real sense doing honor to those principles upon which rests the fabric of government throughout the American Continent."-Henry L. Stimson A JULY, 1932 THE AMERICAS PAY HOMAGE TO WASHINGTON No. 7 NOTABLE tribute was paid to the memory of George Washington when the 20 Latin American Republics united on Pan American Day, April 14, in sending messages from their respective presidents to be read at his tomb at Mount Vernon by their Ambassadors, Ministers, and Chargés d'Affaires in the United States, who stood with the Hon. Francis White, Assistant Secretary of State of the United States, under the open sky before the simple brick mausoleum containing the sarcophagi of George and Martha Washington. One message after another eulogized Washington for the "strength of his uprightness," and the encouragement which his example gave to the American nations of the south "when on the threshold of their great destinies," and spoke of him as the hero who "represents the advent of republican democracy in the world," "the warrior, the governor, and the citizen, three times great, who was born two centuries ago for the good of the United States, for the honor of the new continent, and for the glory of the world." Thus the voice of the Americas confirmed the opinion expressed by Thomas Jefferson more than a hundred years ago when he said of Washington: "On the whole, his character was, in its mass, perfect, in nothing bad, in few points indifferent; and it may truly be said that never did nature and fortune combine more perfectly to make a man great, and to place him in the same constellation with whatever worthies have merited from man an everlasting remembrance. For his was the singular destiny and merit of leading the armies of his country successfully through an arduous war, for the establishment of its independence; of conducting its councils through the birth of a government, new in its forms and principles, until it had settled down into a quiet and orderly train; and of scrupulously obeying the laws through |