The following is taken from an essay by the first OAS Secretary General, which appeared in Américas in April 1949

PRESS ACCOUNTS of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee's debate on the OAS Charter reopened a discussion that had already taken place among American delegates during the first drafting and again when it was whipped into final shape at Bogota. For several reasons, this was bound to produce serious concern among the American governments.

Never had an international convention met with more favorable general response than the Bogotá Charter. Even the tragic atmosphere in which it was discussed-when delegates' voices often mingled with the distant crack of snipers' rifle ...

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