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...Francisco Castillo Nájera, Mexico's Ambassador to the U.S. and a good chess player, was playing the biggest diplomatic game of his career. On the international chessboard in Washington were some powerful pieces-oil, silver, the Good Neighbor policy. One afternoon last week, at an hour usually sacred to siesta, Chess Player Castillo Nájera played all his pieces and played them well...
...Ambassador Castillo Nájera won all these moves. Now he lost a small one. U.S. citizens have claims against Mexico-aside from oil-totaling $40,000,000. In Secretary Hull's office, Mexico agreed to pay these in full by 1956, put up $3,000,000 on account (Mexico has already paid $3,000,000 on agrarian claims), will pay off the rest in $2,500,000 installments...
Next Ambassador Castillo Nájera moved his queen-oil. Mexico needed money, trade stabilization, a general economic overhauling. The U.S. needed a powerful demonstration of hemisphere solidarity. President Manuel Avila Camacho needed a big deal to back up his strong anti-Axis stand, his appeals for U.S. collaboration. His Minister of Foreign Affairs, suave Dr. Ezequiel Padilla, known as Narciso Negro (black narcissus) for his elegance, needed a triumph to swing Mexico's foreign policy back to close relations with Britain and the U.S. One thing stood in the way-oil. Between the $175,000,000 at which...
When Ambassador Castillo Nájero left Secretary Hull's office, he had an agreement on oil. Technically, it did not end the oil dispute. It was merely an agreement to agree in the future. By its terms each country will appoint one expert to determine how much the U.S. oil interests will be paid for the expropriated property. The experts will report before April 20, 1942, and there can be no appeal from their decision. If they do not agree, diplomatic negotiations begin, pledged to a settlement within five months, or the whole deal is off. The settlement...
Gunther has a long section on the rights & wrongs and possible solutions for the U.S.Argentine beef problem. He also discusses such things as why Buenos Aires busses are called mata gent es (man-killers) and their drivers, asesinos (assassins); why Argentina has two Presidents (Roberto Marcelino Ortiz, Dr. Ramon Castillo); why Buenos Aires has two of the world's best newspapers (La Prensa and La Nation); what Argentines think about World War II; what they are doing about their "powerful and dangerous" Fifth Column; why they say: "When the United States talks about bases it is like stamping...