Word: chapultepec
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...were honoring their defenders against the U.S., which, just 100 years ago, invaded the country in the name of "manifest destiny." The highest tributes were reserved for Los Niñs Heroes-the five teen-age cadets and their instructor who (legend says) threw themselves over the cliff at Chapultepec Castle rather than surrender to General Winfield Scott's U.S. troops in the war's climactic battle...
Mexicans crowded Mexico City's cypress-shaded Chapultepec Park to mark the 100th anniversary of Los Niños Heroes. Even after President Truman's popular gesture in visiting Los Niños monument last March, it was a touchy moment. Some Americans and Mexicans thought that to send West Point cadets to last week's ceremony was a big mistake...
This ringing declaration, formulated two years ago in Mexico City and agreed to by all 21 of the American republics, is the heart of the Act of Chapultepec. It has brought a new concept to hemispheric policy...
Next week, in the salmon-pink Boite of Quitandinha, a hotel and onetime gambling casino in the cool mountains north of Rio, the top brass of hemispheric diplomacy will meet to put the Chapultepec agreement into permanent, postwar treaty form. Secretary of State George Marshall will be there; so will Republican Senator Arthur Vandenberg, Warren Austin, U.S. representative to the U.N. and Texas Democrat Senator Tom Connally. President Truman might show...
...chief business of the conference will be the drafting of a permanent mutual defense treaty to replace temporary wartime defense measures laid down by the Act of Chapultepec (TIME, March 12, 1945). At the Pan-American Conference in Bogotá next January a permanent Inter-American defense board to implement the treaty will be established. While all the American republics see eye to eye on the general nature of the defense treaty, Argentina has an important reservation. She wants the right to veto collective action. On that issue, Fernandes will have a chance to fulfill Brazil's traditional role...