Word: chapultepec
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Determined to strike a deal with the U.S., President Juan Domingo Peron ordered his stooges in Congress to ratify the 1945 hemispheric Act of Chapultepec* and the United Nations Charter too). That made it word-eating week in Argentina...
Should the shiny new playthings go to the recalcitrant Argentines? War and Navy seemed to think so. State's Assistant Secretary Spruille Braden wondered why the rush. Why not let the Argentines first deNazify themselves, as they had promised at Chapultepec and at the U.N. meeting in San Francisco...
...fail," said Perón, as he swore to defend constitutional government. Then he outlined his national program: 1) "unshakable maintenance-firm and intransigent -of our sovereignty"; 2) "social improvement"; 3) a new "dynamic" system of justice. He said no direct word about Argentina's Chapultepec and United Nations promises to toss out his Nazi friends; that he would leave to Congress...
...summer home at Fortin into a hotel, enticed tourists with a gardenia-filled swimming pool, has made the resort almost a tourist must. Ruiz Galindo weekends in Fortin, does business in bathing trunks at the pool's edge. In Mexico City he lives in new, garish Lomas de Chapultepec, the suburb of the newly arrived bourgeois...
...result of the ensuing storm, his friends decided that he had been "abused" long enough. Last week 500 left-wingers, including Diego Rivera and Dolores del Rio, who extended the hand of fellowship (see cut), gathered in big, drafty Chapultepec Restaurant in Mexico City, gave Lombardo a dreamed-up award: "Decoration of the Combatant." Citation: the Mexican "most assailed by reactionaries and imperialists...