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Although an immediate unanimous diplomatic rupture with the Axis had been thwarted by Chilean-Argentine opposition. Statesman Welles and such other notable statesmen as Brazil's President Getulio Vargas and Foreign Minister Oswaldo Aranha, Mexico's Foreign Minister Ezequiel Padilla and Uruguay's Alberto Guanú had given new meaning to the term Americanism. They had preserved the moral unity of the 21 Nations, driven Axis diplomats from 19 of them, and throttled Axis trade. With resolutions calling for economic mobilization and the unification of hemisphere defenses, they had begun the task of making America economically...
...which declared: "The principle that international conduct must be inspired by the policy of the Good Neighbor is the norm of international law on the American continent." This Good Neighbor diplomacy reached its peak at the Conference's concluding plenary session in Tiradentes Palace. Brazil's Aranha, scarcely able to control the excitement in his bass voice, announced to stomping, cheering crowds that Brazil, largest and strategically the most important of the South American countries had ". . . at 6 o'clock today broken her diplomatic and commercial relations with Germany, Italy and Japan." After settlement...
After being informed that all aboard were safe, sly Foreign Minister Aranha could not resist a diplomatic jest. "The plane was not overloaded," said he. "It was simply Ruiz Guiñazú's conscience that was heavy...
Apparent Triumph. By mid-week Sumner Welles looked bored. But after a private three-hour session with Chile's Rossetti, Argentina's Ruiz Guiñazú, Peru's Alfredo Solf y Muro, and Brazil's Oswaldo Aranha, Mr. Welles was jubilant. "If I had been earlier I would have ordered champagne for you all," he told waiting newsmen...
Eyes on the Argentine. From a speaker's podium banked with orchids, Brazil's suave; nimble-witted Foreign Minister Oswaldo Aranha stepped on to the floor to greet various delegates at the opening session. But when Argentina's Foreign Minister Enrique Ruiz Guiñazú came in, walking gingerly, Oswaldo Aranha hurried forward to shake hands, pat his shoulder, and chat warmly. For Argentina's Ruiz Guiñazú was the man who might wreck the Conference. He was the man to watch...