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...Argentina's Foreign Minister José Maria Cantilo, outraged by the German invasion of Western Europe two days before, called upon the Americas to abandon what he called "the dead conception" of neutrality for a realistic nonbelligerency. Last week, one year and 16 days later, Argentina's Acting President Ramon S. Castillo "reaffirmed" his country's neutrality. During the year the U.S. had abandoned the dead conception of neutrality for a realistic near-belligerency. Argentina declined to follow its own original advice...
...Zuberbuhler, secretary of the delegation. No newcomer to Pan-American conferences, a stanch U. S. friend is scholarly Buenos Aires Lawyer Melo, onetime Radical Antiper-sonalista (conservative) Deputy & Senator, onetime Minister of Interior. At the Panama meeting last autumn he went over the head of Foreign Minister Jose M. Cantilo, appealed directly to President Roberto M. Ortiz, threatened to resign unless Argentina approved U. S. plans for a neutrality belt around the Americas...
Unwilling to make any definite commitments about the conference, cagey Argentine Foreign Minister José M. Cantilo cautiously proclaimed a policy of "continental solidarity and autonomy of action," carefully remained in Buenos Aires on a plea of pressing domestic problems. In his place bald, scholarly Dr. Leopoldo Melo, onetime Minister of the Interior, will head the Argentine delegation, accompanied by Felipe A. Espil, Argentine Ambassador in Washington...
...utterances as head of its most important rival for South American leadership, faced by a 30% decrease of European markets since the outbreak of the war (although trade with Britain is way up), Argentina too turned to the U. S. for help. French-educated Foreign Minister Jose M. Cantilo, always before an advocate of an Argentine-controlled South American bloc, declared that mutual understanding between Argentina and the U. S. was improving daily. More urgent was the cry that the U. S. must aid the South American "economic victims of the European War" or see them fall into economic systems...
...echo these sentiments, in Buenos Aires Argentine Foreign Minister Jose Maria Cantilo, after conferring with U. S. Ambassador Norman Armour, proposed that the Americas make a new declaration of solidarity, stronger than any heretofore. Neutrality, said Minister Cantilo, is a "fiction," a "dead conception." The Americas should adopt an attitude of "nonbelligerency," like Italy's: wholly sympathetic with one belligerent...