Word: bolivar
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...BOLIVAR-Emit Ludwig-Alliance...
...books are better suited than this one (written at the request of the Venezuelan Government) to help North Americans to understand Latin Americans. Simon Bolivar freed almost a third of South America in the name of democracy. He was driven out as a dictator when he tried to give orderly government to the region he had freed. His was the pioneer vision of Latin-American unity and hemispheric solidarity. (He was never able to achieve either.) Both his stupendous successes and his stupendous failures shed light on much that Americans find strange in the problems of Latin-American democracy...
...White House went an angry cable from leaders of Puerto Rico's Coalition Party, begging President Roosevelt to take Rex Tugwell away. In Washington, slick-haired, solemn Bolivar Pagan, Resident Commissioner of Puerto Rico, passionately denounced Rex Tugwell as "an American quisling." Said Commissioner Pagan: "He is doing everything so that loyal American citizens in Puerto Rico become sore and disunited. . . . Governor Tugwell is doing a good job for the Axis powers...
Last week foreign ministers of 21 republics representing 300,000,000 Americans opened consultative sessions, and a triumph-one that could at last vindicate Bolivar's Pan Americanism-was within their grasp...
...ranging from subversive activity to post-war rehabilitation, they counted up the signs-good, bad, but never indifferent. As they did so a leading Latin American statesman, looking beyond the immediate necessity of a common American front against the Axis, expressed to a TIME correspondent an opinion that brought Bolivar up to date, and beyond...