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I can see them now writing into their platform a great boost for this Pan American conference at Habana. Of course. we have not the official report of the Pan American conference at Habana. and it is impossible for us to tell what was accomplished there. but we do know from the newspaper reports that the Central and South Americans wanted to talk about the tariff down there. they wanted us to reduce our tariff so that some of their products could find a market in this country. Then they wanted to talk about immigration. Of course. those questions were taboo. They wanted to talk about Nicaragua also. and there was a good deal of talk about Nicaragua.