Word: acted
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...declaration's first purpose was to put an iron halter on Argentina, the only Latin American country not a member of the United Nations and not represented at Mexico City (see LATIN AMERICA). If Argentina's jingoes went mad and attacked fearful Uruguay or Chile, the Act of Chapultepec would bring the U.S., Brazil, the rest of the Pan-American system solidly into line against Buenos Aires...
Practically, both Britain and Russia may be glad to leave primary responsibility for the Americas to the U.S. At Mexico City, the U.S. delegates evidently hoped so. They limited the Act of Chapultepec to matters "appropriate for regional action." And they specified that action even in these matters" shall be consistent with the purposes and principles of the general international organization...
...intend to act in such a way that . . . individual merit and private initiative will remain as the basis of national activity. . . . We do not imagine our French economy of tomorrow without a 'free sector,' as large as possible. . . . [But] we declare that the State must hold the master switches...
...hemmed & hawed over the problem of helping the world's devastated countries to reconstruct themselves, Ottawa launched its own scheme. Finance Minister James Lorimer Ilsley announced a $15,000,000 credit agreement with Czechoslovakia. It was the first loan under the Dominion's new Export Credits Insurance Act...
Brazilian newspapermen had waited seven years for a collective interview with their Dictator-President, Dr. Getulio Dornelles Vargas. Last week, in Brazil's summer capital, over 100 reporters and editors jampacked a small, ornate salon, waiting patiently to question Dr. Vargas about the "Additional Act" - his brand-new constitutional amendment...