Word: az
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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CARLOS DÍAZ Mexico City...
...been bombed from Siberian bases, when Reader Diaz wrote, for a good reason: Siberian bases belong to Russia and Russia, for good reasons (TIME, Dec. 22), was not at war with Japan. U.S. bombers cannot reach Tokyo from Alaska and return without refueling en route. But Reader Dìaz' words are welcome as a bellicose sample of Mexican feeling about...
...consistently since Franklin Roosevelt gave the first diplomatic twist to the words Good Neighbor nine years ago come April. Argentina is nationalistic, European-minded, antagonistic to U.S.-or any other-leadership, jealous of its own leadership in the southern end of the hemisphere. Foreign Minister Enrique Ruiz Guiñazú said just before the Conference last week: "This America of ours must be preserved for peace." Translated from the diplomatic, this meant that Argentina might oppose Mr. Welles's program...
...their defense. Through friendship for the U.S., both practical and idealistic, they sometimes go even further than the U.S. believes politic in declarations of policy. It was doubtlessly partly fear that one of these republics would call for a hemisphere declaration of war that led Ruiz Guiñazú to make his statement before the Conference opened...
...Argentina's new Foreign Minister, Enrique Ruiz e Guiñazü, was sworn in. On his way back to Buenos Aires from Europe, where he was a longtime delegate to the League of Nations and later Ambassador to the Vatican, Dr. Ruiz had stopped in Washington for talks with Secretary of State Cordell Hull and Under Secretary Sumner Welles. Hardly had he taken office than a report from Montevideo, across the broad mouth of the Rio de la Plata, indicated that the toughest defense problem between the U.S. and Argentina would be solved...