Word: ambassadors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...high point came at the Quai d'Orsay when Evita watched stout, perspiring Argentine Ambassador Julio Victorica Roca sign a French-Argentine commercial treaty granting France a loan of 600,000,000 pesos ($150,750,000). It would mean a lot more wheat. It would mean, too, more beef. One French commentator quipped unkindly: "Madame Peron will be made palatable to the French workers and peasants by being dressed as a piece of Argentine frozen beef...
Married. John Gilbert Winant Jr., 25, handsome, taciturn elder son of the one-time U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, for 19 months a P.W. in Germany (after his B-17 was shot down over Münster); and Janine Perret, 24, a Swiss girl he met nine years ago; in Geneva...
That was enough for vigorous Argentine Ambassador Hugo Oderigo. He issued a communiqué charging a "certain Argentine politician" with breaking his word not to discuss politics. Palacios heard of the statement, canceled his plane passage, and in a booming voice called on two friends to proceed as seconds to challenge the Ambassador to a duel...
...upshot: Ambassador Oderigo, with good diplomatic sense, announced that his communique had been partly in error. Next day at the airport, as he prepared to return to B.A., Alfredo Palacios, his eyes gleaming, received the warm abrazos and huzzahs of his Peruvian friends...
Last week, another American neighbor turned on him. Guatemala refused to accept the ambassador proposed by Trujillo, formally broke relations with the Dominican Republic. Guatemalan President Juan José Arévalo, who never forgets that his country got rid of its own dictator, General Jorge Ubico, in 1944, pointed a democratic finger of scorn. Trujillo, he said, had corrupted "republican practices into monarchical practices." With rigged elections like last May's, he added, Dictator Trujillo could rule "for the next four centuries...