Niagara Falls peace conference

Rómulo Sebastián Naón and his son Romulo Naon, Joseph Rucker Lamar, Domício da Gama, Frederick William Lehmann, Eduardo Suárez Mujica and his son in Niagara Falls in 1914

Eduardo Suárez Mujica and Domício da Gama and Romulo S. Naon at the Niagara Falls peace conference in 1914

The Niagara Falls peace conference started on May 20, 1914, when the ABC Powers met in Niagara Falls, Canada, for diplomatic negotiations in order to avoid war between the United States and Mexico. There was increasing tensions between the two over the Tampico Affair of April 9, 1914 and the subsequent United States occupation of Veracruz of April 21, 1914 during the Mexican Revolution. At the conference, the United States was represented by Frederick William Lehmann, a former United States Solicitor General; and Joseph Rucker Lamar, an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.^[1] On May 27, 1914 to celebrate their success, the ABC envoys and the American and Mexican delegates to the conference attended a royal garden party given by the Duke of Connaught, the Governor General of Canada at the King Edward Hotel.^[2]

External links

• Niagara Falls peace conference from the Library of Congress at Flickr Commons

Attendees

• Frederick William Lehmann, American
• Robert F. Rose, American
• Joseph Rucker Lamar, American
• Romulo S. Naon, Argentina
• Domício da Gama, Brazil
• Eduardo Suárez Mujica, Chile

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  Romulo S. Naon of Argentina and Robert F. Rose at the ABC Conference

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  Clifton Hotel, at the ABC Conference

References

1. ^ Small, Michael, The Forgotten Peace: Mediation at Niagara Falls, University of Ottawa Press 2009, ISBN 0-7766-0712-2
2. ^ "Governor General and Duchess Give Garden Party for Them in Toronto". New York Times. May 28, 1914. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F60814F93C5E13738DDDA10A94DD405B848DF1D3. Retrieved 2011-01-10. "A B C envoys and American and Mexican delegates to the Niagara Falls peace conference, together with their wives and daughters, secretaries and attaches, invaded Toronto today to attend the royal garden party given by the Duke of Connaught, Governor General of Canada; the Duchess of Connaught, Sir John Gibson, Lieutenant Governor of Ontario, and Lady Gibson."