Declaration of Lima

In The Hesperus Prophecy, Declan flips through the newspaper to find an article about the year’s noble prize winners, when stumbles upon the article on the Declaration of Lima.

The Declaration of Lima was adopted on December 24, 1938, at the International Conference of American States in Lima, Peru. With another European war looming, the Western Hemisphere nations formed a pact, expressing their desire to avoid getting pulled into the conflict.

Declan, like most Americans, welcomed the Declaration of Lima, having no desire for the United States to get dragged into a Second World War. The Declaration of Lima kept the Americas out of the war until Pearl Harbor was attacked on December 7, 1941.