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Amidst the flowery courtesies bandied over the luncheon table at the Hotel Continental, Arévalo hailed Mexico's 1938 expropriation of foreign oil companies as a "continental guide" for the assertion of national sovereignty. To some Mexicans Arévalo's brave words may have sounded like mention of rope in the house of the hanged; Mexico today is pondering how to attract foreign capital to help reorganize her hopelessly inefficient oil industry. But Arevalo had a purpose. He was talking at the United Fruit Co., whose north coast plantations had been paralyzed for four weeks...
...concept of law & order while still preserving full civil liberties even for law violators. Why don't you admit that the implications of the article were unfounded and unwarranted ? Why not say that your face is red? Surely TIME will not diminish in public esteem by such a brave admission of error...
...only one that understood America." Much later, when Tom has walked out on Polly to sleep with his secretary, she sees him and his crowd clearly: "All at once enthusiasms and loyalties and beliefs became very tiresome. The intelligentsia, the bright planners, working on those streamlined blueprints for the brave new world, were always repeating themselves. . . . There was something mechanical about Tom and all those boys. . . . There was some basic lack of understanding in spite of all their aptitudes...
Smuts's country had failed dismally to advance toward that brave ideal. Egged on by his opposition, the even more reactionary Nationalist Party, Smuts was going deeper & deeper into the racist morass of "white supremacy." Just before leaving for the current round of international conferences, he announced a great campaign to bring to South Africa "thousands, hundreds of thousands and millions of immigrants." That they would be white went without saying...
...Henry Ford I discovered the soybean. Soon he was passionately convinced that it would work brave new industrial miracles. Before long, dumfounded visitors at Ford's drank soybean milk, ate soybean butter spread on soybean bread, came away convinced that old Henry would soon be turning out a soybean auto...