Word: az
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sixty-year-old Nicolás Rodriguez Díaz, on his farm in western Cuba, and to some 50,000 colonos (sugar planters) like him, it was startling news. At the cockfight in town, and over a glass of country wine in the bodega afterward, he and fellow colonos talked angrily of raising less cane if they were not cut in on the price rise. Some even heeded the tocsin of the leftist Federation of Campesinos (Farmers), boarded trains and buses for Havana, demonstrated on the Capitolio's steps (see cut). By last week President Grau was reported...
Possibly, too, she planned a sphere-of-influence solution like the Anglo-Russian Convention of 1907, which solved nothing. More likely was the less ambitious aim of a Communist-controlled, autonomous Az erbaijan with a pro-Soviet Government in Teheran. These would be enough to secure her exposed southern flank...
Mexico's generals, spawned by the Madero Revolution of 1911, which sent longtime dictator Porfirio Díaz scurrying to Paris, had multiplied with each succeeding revolt. Now the Mexican Army has so many generals that no one is able to count them accurately. Said a cynical Mexican official: "It is easier to count the soldiers...
...immediate reaction of Argentina's government was typical. Police banned publication of the British protest in all Argentine newspapers. President Castillo and his Foreign Minister Enrique Ruiz Guiñazú went into hurried conference. Next day they came up with a reply which the press was directed to print side by side with the London statement...
Belatedly Argentina's Foreign Minister Enrique Ruiz Guiñazú, now engaged in a Nazi espionage cleanup based on U.S. State Department memoranda similar to that recently sent Chile (TIME, Nov. 16), cabled Secretary of State Cordell Hull. The Argentine people, said he, watched "with solidarity and interest the efforts made by the great and friendly nation in safeguarding the security of the Americas...