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...Biggest open link in Franklin Roosevelt's chain of Good Neighbors in the Western Hemisphere has been Argentina. For five years Mr. Roosevelt and Secretary of State Cordell Hull have patiently, persistently struggled to overcome: 1) Argentina's historic dominance by Great Britain, 2) Argentine fears of U. S. imperialism, 3) Argentine insistence that the U. S. lift its 1930 ban on imports of pampas beef, 4) Argentina's across-the-table system of bilateral trade, 5) Argentina's able, egotistic Foreign Minister, Saavedra Lamas...
...historically, commercially, Argentina has been a British supply house. Great Britain has $2,000,000,000 invested in the Argentine (the U. S. about $700,000,000); the British own the biggest Argentine railroad; have customarily taken 40% of all Argentine exports. But where blandishments failed, disillusionment succeeded. Not Munich, but the cash register, disillusioned Senor Lamas, who saw that Britain was steadily shifting its agricultural trade to its colonies, that the Argentine was being set up only as a great emergency storehouse for wartime food supplies...
...onetime President of the Indian National Congress-the first important Indian to go to China since Rabindranath Tagore 15 years ago. Rumors of Japanese penetration in India have worried China; and the friendship of another downtrodden native race had feeling if not cash in it. Pandit Nehru received the biggest welcome ever accorded a foreign visitor. Over 200 officials and representatives of public organizations welcomed him at the pebbly island in the Yangtze which serves Chungking as an airport. Up through streets half-bombed, half-bedecked with banners & posters the Chinese drove their guest. As if purposely accentuating his sympathy...
California has this year the biggest rush of tourists in its history, has taken from them at least $100,000,000 of new business. For this a quiet, gangling Texan named Clyde Milner Vandeburg (32), director of Fair promotion, and his assistant, beaming Crompton Bangs Jr. (29), former G-Man are largely responsible. Two years ago Promoter Vandeburg talked Fair managers into selling their Big Show rs a peg on which to hang a national campaign of travel to eleven far-western States instead of merely plugging San Francisco. To tie the westward movement into a national travel merry...
Last week, in hot and humid Manhattan, delegates and visitors to Dean Russell's Congress jampacked Columbia's biggest hall, its gymnasium and two overflow meeting rooms to hear democracy defended. Present were delegates from 26 noneducational organizations, and an equal number of educators, some 3,000 all told. National Association of Manufacturer's Lammot du Pont rubbed elbows with C. I. O.'s James B. Carey. Only urgent business in Atlantic City and Paris kept away A. F. of L.'s William Green, France's Edouard Herriot (they sent messages). Among the speakers...