Word: cantilo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...meeting, President Getulio Vargas of Brazil declaimed that the Americas had as much right to establish a peace zone as European nations had to proclaim a war zone. This fine thought was not followed by any practical suggestions. In Buenos Aires, Argentina's Foreign Minister José Maria Cantilo suggested that if Great Britain and France would agree to send no more warships into the safety zone, it might be possible to get Germany to promise the same thing. Nobody else was so hopeful. It seemed that the Americas' neutrality belt was likely to continue as theory...