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Faced with this competition, the U.S. lines, principally Grace,* United Fruit and Lykes, cried for help. They got it from the shipping section of the U.S. State Department; the Embassy in Bogotá was told to point out that Colombia was violating the 1846 treaty of commerce, friendship and navigation. Colombians knew the answer to that one: in the same treaty, the U.S. guaranteed Colombian rights over Panama. The U.S., Colombia claims, violated the treaty when Theodore Roosevelt, as he boasted, "took Panama...
Stones Hurled. Bogotá students made the controversy an occasion for a mass meeting. There were cries of "Down with Yankee Imperialism," "Down with Truman." Then Communists and other U.S.-baiters led the crowd downtown to the U.S. Embassy. A U.S. truck parked outside was overturned, the Embassy was stoned. The mob moved on to Grace Line offices, smashed windows and furniture until police took over...
Afterwards, the conference adopted the plan of Mexico's hard-working Foreign Minister Jaime Torres Bodet to postpone discussions of hemisphere economics until a special conference to be held next year, probably at Buenos Aires, and after the Bogotá Conference. Having made this decision, the delegates amiably steamrollered (15-5) the proposal of Cuba's Guillermo Belt, who had campaigned for a treaty clause barring economic aggression...
...TIME, March 31). The sum of A.P.'s dispatch was that the Government had sued to collect multimillion-dollar duties on newsprint that oppositionist La Prensa and La Nación had imported over the last nine years. (By law, newsprint for "cultural publications" is duty-free.) In Bogotá, Colombia, El Tiempo picked up the dispatch and ran a thundering editorial calling on the press of the hemisphere to lay Juan Perón's press-badgering before the Rio Conference...
...chief business of the conference will be the drafting of a permanent mutual defense treaty to replace temporary wartime defense measures laid down by the Act of Chapultepec (TIME, March 12, 1945). At the Pan-American Conference in Bogotá next January a permanent Inter-American defense board to implement the treaty will be established. While all the American republics see eye to eye on the general nature of the defense treaty, Argentina has an important reservation. She wants the right to veto collective action. On that issue, Fernandes will have a chance to fulfill Brazil's traditional role...