Word: cantilo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Argentina's Foreign Minister Dr. José Maria Cantilo quickly called all American diplomatic representatives in Buenos Aires for consultations. Argentinian sympathy for Germany, which was supposed to be strong, disappeared overnight. A decree curtailing the barter deals with the Nazis restored to the U. S. many of the orders for fuels, electrical appliances, chemicals, drugs, newsprint which had been coming from Europe. The War Ministry discussed discharging the German military mission which had been instructing land forces. And Argentina heartily endorsed a proposal originated by El Hombre Roosevelt but officially put forward by Panama: that the signatories...
...cattlemen and their spokesmen in Congress exploded with indignation at this Presidential statement. In Argentina whose frozen (but not corned) beef has been kept out of the U. S. on the grounds that the country harbors hoof & mouth disease, his words were acclaimed. Said Argentine Foreign Minister Jose Cantilo in Buenos Aires : "A fine gesture ! ... An important precedent in friendly relations...
...were identified as those of a German Embassy secretary and Nazi Leader Alfred Müller. Result: police arrested Leader Müller, raided Nazi Party offices. The German Chargė d'Affaires protested that the letter was a "gross forgery," and Argentine Foreign Minister José Maria Cantilo made a conciliatory reply, although continuing to investigate. Most delighted were British and American traders who believed that the German genius for losing friends would weaken the Nazis' position in the tight, three-cornered fight for Argentine business...
...tunic and black cape, having checked his broad-brimmed hat outside. His Majesty, taking a seat in the fifth row, sat quietly through van Zeeland's reading of Il Duce's note. He also sat through a long speech by flowery Delegate José María Cantilo of Argentina, the country which had demanded that the Assembly meet on the Ethiopian Question. Harking back to President Hoover's meticulous
Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson, the Argentine recalled in rosy terms the "Stimson Doctrine" of simply not recognizing that Japan has made a great conquest in China and dominates Manchukuo (TIME, March 28, 1932). According to Señor Cantilo this Stimson Doctrine could well be applied today not only to Manchukuo but also to Ethiopia -its great attraction to harassed statesmen being that it enables them to give an imposing name to doing nothing and omitting year after year to make up their minds...