Niagara Falls peace conference

Rómulo Sebastián Naón and his son Rómulo Sebastián Naón, Jr., Frederick William Lehmann, Joseph Rucker Lamar, Domício da Gama, 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
Henry Percival Dodge, and Joseph Rucker Lamar, and Frederick William Lehmann, and Robert F. Rose at the Niagara Falls peace conference in 1914

The Niagara Falls peace conference, sometimes referred to as the ABC Conference, started on May 20, 1914, when representatives from Argentina, Brazil and Chile—the ABC Powers—met in Niagara Falls, Canada, for diplomatic negotiations in order to avoid war between the United States and Mexico, during the era of the Mexican Revolution.[1][2]

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  2. ^ "Bulletins from Peace Meeting Eagerly Read by the Crowds". New York Times. May 21, 1914. Retrieved 2014-01-03. 'Play Ball' sang out an irreverent voice as Frederick W. Lehmann and Justice Joseph R. Lamar, the two American delegates to the Niagara Falls peace conference, arrived here a few minutes before 3 o'clock this afternoon and went upstairs to the sun parlor for the opening session of the conference. ...