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...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...
...Good Neighborliness of the U.S.-such countries as Mexico and Chile. While they may differ with the U.S. over occasional issues, within the framework of Pan-Americanism they are friendly collaborators. Their attitude was expressed last week in a prompt rebuke administered to Argentina's Ruiz Guiñazú by Chile's Foreign Minister, Juan Bautista Rossetti, who issued the first call for the Conference. Although handicapped by a headless Government at home and weather-eyeing an Argentine customs-union proposal, Rossetti declared: "America is one. There are no blocs, no artificial distinctions between north, center...
...pressure will fall on the shoulders of Argentina's Foreign Minister. A career diplomat and author of heavy works on jurisprudence, Ruiz Guiñazú rose from obscurity to president of the League of Nations Council because Argentina alphabetically led off the member nations. Descendant of an autocratic Spanish family and stubborn stickler for legal details, he is temperamentally simpático with Acting President Castillo but out of tune with popular sentiment. Officially quiet under "state-of-siege" orders, Argentines began the New Year with a spate of "last-time" hilarity, as if they realized there might...