Word: chapultepec
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...romantic Chapultepec Castle, above the cypress-shaded park where Aztec Emperors once strolled, the Mexican Society of Anthropology met last week for its fourth annual "round table." The Mexicans and gringos who sat down together were, in an archeological sense, wealthy men. Around them extended a diggers' dream empire, hardly touched, which 100 expeditions with 100 fat budgets could not hope to explore completely in 100 years...
Around Argentina's big marble Palacio del Congreso, Perón lined up 700 cops, then told the deputies inside to okay the Act of Chapultepec and the United Nations Charter. Grudgingly, the nationalist majority obeyed...
...mean that Argentina (or the U.S.) was ready to let bygones be bygones. As Foreign Minister Juan A. Bramuglia pointed out, the Act of Chapultepec only bound Argentina to attend another Pan-American conference. In Washington, State Department officials heard from U.S. Ambassador George Messersmith that Perón would not toss out old Nazi friends like Ludwig Freude. And the U.S. still stood on Secretary Byrnes's "deeds, not promises...
Only three days earlier Peron's wheelhorse, Senator Diego Luis Molinari, had told fellow nationalists in a Buenos Aires cafe: "We have won, sovereignty is saved" (i.e., the treaty was out). Now he rose in the Senate to ready the majority decision on Chapultepec: "When we are asked if we want this to be a free and independent nation, we cry full of the holy spirit of justice, unanimously and spontaneously yes, for the independence of the Argentine nations." The nationalist gallery clapped thunderously...
Then the Senator lowered his voice, rapidly read the Senate's approval of Chapultepec. A roar rose from the gallery...