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...clubwomen, hastened to assure the delegation that the treaties will receive early ratification. When the caravan reached Argentina last week it had secured the solemn pledges of Brazil, Cuba, Uruguay and Venezuela to get busy. To their collection the ladies added the promise of Argentina's President, Agustin P. Justo, then headed across the Andes for Santiago, Chile. Next in line for a pressure visit come Peru, Ecuador, Colombia and Panama...
Doughty General Agustin Justo, President of Argentina, has long been running this Republic in a manner smacking of Dictatorship. While still acting as Foreign Minister, Dr. Saavedra Lamas expects soon to retire. Not being in sympathy with Dictatorship, he gave the Monroe Doctrine a clever new twist, managed to make a speech which created a Latin-American sensation and which hardly could have been delivered in General Justo's Argentina had it been less clever...
...unsuccessful because Argentine army officers had smothered the heckler, were dragging him out of the hall. Out of sight, the heckler's identity was thus concealed from all present except the host of the occasion, Argentina's President Agustin Justo...
Next noon Agustin Justo and 73 others lunched officially at the U. S. Embassy and Franklin Roosevelt made them a practical little speech assuring them that he would do his best to have modified the quarantine restriction which keeps Argentine meat out of the U. S.* By way of gratitude for this friendliness, the Argentine Co-Operative of Meat Producers sent the carcasses of six swine and six lambs, also six beef tenderloins and a choice assortment of veal kidneys down to the Indianapolis as a parting gift...
...Jesuit school, went to Paris to complete his education, traveled much in Europe, went home to be trained in the anti-U. S. atmosphere of Argentine diplomatic circles. He endowed and sat in a chair of labor legislation at the University of Buenos Aires. In 1932, when General Agustin P. Justo became President after two years of revolutionary government, Dr. Saavedra became Foreign Minister...