Sculptures by The National Museum at Washington Women of the Americas Women delegates to inter-American conferences IT will be recalled that Srta. Minerva Bernardino, the Chairman of the Inter-American Commission of Women, was the only woman delegate to the Inter-American Conference on Problems of War and Peace at Mexico City early this year, and that she also represented her government at the United Nations Conference at San Francisco. To the latter conference Brazil, the United States, and Uruguay also sent women delegates, as mentioned in the BULLETIN for July 1945. In connection with the interest created by the notable part played by these women delegates and by the other women who were members of various delegations as counselors and advisers, it may be timely to recall that the first inter-American conference of a political character to which women delegates were accredited was the Seventh International Conference of American States, which met at Montevideo in 1933. Paraguay, the United States, and Uruguay each sent a woman delegate with plenipotentiary powers. Brazil named two women delegates and the United States one woman delegate to the Inter-American Conference on the Maintenance of Peace at Buenos Aires in 1936, and each of these countries included a woman on its delegation to the Eighth International Conference of American States at Lima in 1938. As early as 1919 women attended one of the technical inter-American conferences (the Second Pan American Child Congress) as official delegates. They were sent by Argentina, Cuba, and the United States. It may be that among the numerous special conferences that have taken place in the Americas there is a still earlier instance of women delegates. Addresses on Latin American women Miss Mary Cannon, the United States member of the Inter-American Commission of Women, recently addressed seven colleges in Texas on the economic progress of Latin American women. Her lectures were received with great interest, since Miss Cannon has visited all of the Latin American countries that are important industrially and is able to give many little-known facts on industrial conditions and social security, which in several instances surpasses the protection afforded by United States laws. TO KEEP the readers of the BULLETIN informed of the various measures dealing with the war and its effects taken by the American Republics since the United States was attacked by Japan on December 7, 1941, a continuing list is being compiled of laws, decrees, acts, orders, and resolutions published in official gazettes or noted in other publications received at the Pan American Union. While it is attempted to make each monthly installment of the compilation as complete as possible, it is inevitable that some measures should be omitted, because of uncertain mails, delay in receiving recent official papers, and other difficulties. When a reference stands by itself in parentheses, it is the official source for an item for which an unofficial source was previously given. In order to preserve the numbering of the measures mentioned in the preceding issues, items listed in this number whose dates fall between those of measures already published are inserted with letters following the number. The official gazettes of the Latin Ameri can countries are as follows: Argentina, Boletín Oficial; Brazil, Diário Oficial; Chile, Diario Oficial; Colombia, Diario Oficial; Costa Rica, Gaceta Oficial; Cuba, Gaceta Oficial; Dominican Republic, Gaceta Oficial; El Salvador, Diario Oficial; Ecuador, Registro Oficial; Guatemala, Diario de Centro América; Haiti, Le Moniteur; Honduras, La Gaceta; Mexico, Diario Oficial; Nicaragua, La Gaceta; Panama, Gaceta Oficial; Paraguay, Gaceta Oficial; Peru, El Peruano; Uruguay, Diario Oficial; and Venezuela, Gaceta Oficial. No items are given for the United States except under Bilateral and Multilateral Measures. The list was begun in the April 1942 number of the BULLETIN, and omissions will be supplied as information is received from official or other sources. When notice of a measure has been taken from an unofficial account, the official source will be given as soon as it is available. This list will be concluded as of V-J Day, September 2, 1945. ARGENTINA PART XLIV 237a. April 30, 1945. Presidential Decree No. 9,527, fixing the basic price for yellow and red corn of the 1944-45 crop, and making other pertinent provisions. (Boletín Oficial, May 14, 1945.) 2376. April 30, 1945. Presidential Decree No. 9,528, authorizing the Agricultural Production Regulation Board, for the duration of the state of war and as long as it is necessary to maintain transitional measures from wartime to peacetime economy, to acquire the domestic crops of wheat, flax, and corn; providing that it shall sell directly the wheat, flax, and corn to be exported in fulfillment of the commercial treaties signed by Argentina; and making other pertinent provisions. (Boletín Oficial, May 14, 1945.) 237c. April 30, 1945. Vice-Presidential Resolution No. 18, creating the Subcommittee of Private Organizations Collaborating with the National Postwar Council to serve in an informative capac ity. (Boletín Oficial, May 16, 1945.) 240a. May 4, 1945. Presidential Decree No. 10,007, authorizing, on the occasion of the approaching end of hostilities in Europe, the displaying of the flags of the friendly members of the United Nations together with the Argentine flag. (Boletín Oficial, May 14, 1945.) 241a. May 5, 1945. Presidential Decree No. 9,926, establishing that the prohibition on exporta tion of linseed fixed by Presidential Decree No. 32,537 of November 30, 1944 (see Argentina 2004, BULLETIN, September 1945), does not apply to lots already sold and awaiting shipment at the Severances of Diplomatic Relations, Declarations of War, and Signature of the Joint Declaration by the United Nations 1 Evacuation of the German-controlled Vichy Government was reported to be complete by August 18, 1944. The French Committee of National Liberation, which on June 2, 1944, voted to change its name to the Provisional Government of the French Republic, headed by General de Gaulle, had already begun to assume the functions of government, having worked in cooperation with General Eisenhower, Allied Commander in Chief, through liaison officers following the start of the Allied invasion of France on D-Day, June 6, 1944. (New York Times, May 16, June 3, August 19, 1944.) 2 Bulgaria ceased hostilities with the U.S.S.R. on September 9, 1944; severed relations with Germany on September 6, 1944 and with Hungary on September 26, 1944; and then ceased hostilities against all other United Nations. At Moscow on October 28, 1944, Bulgaria accepted the armistice terms presented by the Governments of the United States, the United Kingdom, and the U.S.S.R. on behalf of all the United Nations at war with Bulgaria. (The Department of State Bulletin, October 29, 1944.) 3 Under the terms of an armistice signed at Moscow September 12, 1944, Rumania, as of August 24, 1944, withdrew from the war against the United Nations, broke off relations with Germany and its satellites, and entered the war on the side of the Allied Powers against Germany and Hungary. (The Department of State Bulletin, September 17, 1944.) Under the terms of an armistice signed at Moscow January 20, 1945, between the U.S.S.R., the United Kingdom, and the United States on the one hand and Hungary on the other, Hungary withdrew from the war against the U.S.S.R. and other United Nations, including Czechoslovakia, severed all relations with Germany, and declared war on Germany. (The Department of State Bulletin, January 21, 1945.) 5 Argentina severed relations with Germany and Japan only, since Italy had severed relations with Germany on October 13, 1943, and was thenceforth considered a co-belligerent by the United Nations. The decree of April 7, 1943, by which a state of war was declared to exist between Bolivia and the Axis powers, and under which the Bolivian Government adhered to the United Nations Declaration, was sanctioned by the Bolivian Congress on November 26, 1943, and on December 4, 1943, a decree was promulgated formally declaring that Bolivia is at war with the Axis. (The Department of State Bulletin, December 11, 1943) Rumania and Hungary severed diplomatic relations with Brazil on March 6 and May 5, 1942, respectively. (The Department of State Bulletin, November 20, 1943.) 8 State of belligerency. Ecuador declared war on Japan February 2, 1945, retroactive to December 7, 1941. 10 Mexico had no treaty of friendship or diplomatic relations with Rumania. November 20, 1943.) 11 Panama declared war on December 10, 1941, retroactive to December 7. 12 "State of effective belligerency." (The Department of State Bulletin, 13 The Vichy Government severed diplomatic relations with the United States on November 8, 1942. (The Department of State Bulletin, November 14, 1942.) 14 Declaration of war on Japan by the Chilean Senate. time of promulgation of that decree, nor to small quantities for pharmaceutical use. (Boletín Oficial, June 14, 1945.) 2416. May 5, 1945. Presidential Decree No. 10,135, repealing the decrees which granted juridical personality to three specified companies proved to be operating on enemy funds; and providing that the Administrative Council take possession of the properties of these firms. (Boletín Oficial, May 17, 1945.) 241c. May 5, 1945. Presidential Decree No. 10,191, inviting the municipal governments of the country to decorate the cities with flags for three days following the official announcement of the end of the war in Europe, and calling for thanksgiving services in all the cathedrals of the nation. (Boletín Oficial, May 14, 1945.) 248. May 19, 1945. Presidential Decree No. 10,961, fixing sales prices for denaturants. (Boletín Oficial, June 21, 1945.) 249. May 24, 1945. Presidential Decree No. 11,466, repealing Presidential Decree No. 32,537 of November 30, 1944 (see Argentina 2004, BULLETIN, September 1945), which prohibited the exportation of linseed; making the exportation of linseed subject to prior permit; and providing that permits will be granted by the Department of Industry and Commerce in accordance with the provisions of the treaty signed with the Government of the United States on May 9, 1945 (see Bilateral and Multilateral Measures 211, BULLETIN, August 1945). (Boletín Oficial, June 6, 1945.) 250. May 24, 1945. Vice-Presidential Resolution No. 24, setting forth, for the purposes of Presidential Resolution No. 2,505 of February 2, 1945 (see Argentina 215, BULLETIN, July 1945) wage scales for rural workers, considered as favorably reported upon by the National Postwar Council, and providing that in the interests of preventing inflation no general raises will be allowed except in specified cases. (Boletín Oficial, June 6, 1945.) 251. May 29, 1945. Resolution No. 193, Ministry of the Treasury, authorizing the Central Bank of Argentina to waive foreign exchange requirements in granting export permits for shipments to help prisoners of war or civilian populations in European countries, provided the donations are made from funds collected entirely in Argentina and the request is presented by the Red Cross or a duly accredited foreign representative. (Boletin Oficial, June 16, 1945.) 252. June 1, 1945. Presidential Decree No. 12,223, declaring four Y.P.F. installations to be "war zones"; designating as military governors of these zones the commanding officers of troops guarding the regions; putting the civilians employed in these zones under military jurisdiction; and making other pertinent provisions. (Boletin Oficial, June 11, 1945.) 253. June 2, 1945. Presidential Decree No. 11,996, repealing, in view of improved conditions, Presidential Decree No. 20,052 of July 26, 1944 (see Argentina 150, BULLETIN, January 1945), which placed domestic commerce in copper and its alloys under control of the National Rationing Council. (Boletín Oficial, June 11, 1945.) 254. June 13, 1945. Presidential Decree No. 12,963, providing that, as an extraordinary measure, benefits be granted to unemployed workers recently laid off by certain meat-packing plants (see Argentina 236, BULLETIN, September 1945), the benefits to be paid for no more than three months, beginning April 24, 1945, for an amount equal to the wages the workers were receiving in the plants. (Boletín Oficial, June 18, 1945.) COLOMBIA 162a. May 4, 1945. Resolution No. 292, National Price Control Office, fixing prices for certain kinds of hardware. (Mentioned in Diarie Oficial, June 19, 1945.) 164. May 30, 1945. Resolution No. 362, National Price Control Office, amending Resolution No. 372 of May 31, 1944 (see Colombia 124, BULLETIN, November 1944) to approve new maximum retail prices for certain drugs. (Diario Oficial, June 22, 1945.) 165. June 1, 1945. Resolution No. 367, National Price Control Office, amending Resolution No. 292 of May 4, 1945 (see 162a above) to exclude horse-shoe nails and fence staples from its provisions. (Diario Oficial, June 19, 1945.) 166. June 5, 1945. Presidential Decree No. 1371, declaring the Convention on the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (see Bilateral and Multilateral Measures 123, BULLETIN, February 1944 and Colombia 151, BULLETIN, April and August 1945) to be effective in Colombia from March 16, 1945. (Diario Oficial, June 11, 1945.) 167. June 27, 1945. Resolution No. 435, National Price Control Office, fixing maximum whole |