Word: colombia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...paid coffee a typical American tribute: in Massachusetts in 1865 the percolator was invented. And nowadays a cornerstone of economic solidarity between the 21 American republics is the annual purchase of 13,000,000 bags of coffee-mostly the lower-priced coffees of Brazil, partly the quality coffees of Colombia, which are frequently used, as Turkish tobacco is used in cigarets, for blending purposes...
This situation, however, was no embarrassment to Dictator Benavides. for of the 21 "democracies" represented at the Conference, only nine-U. S., Chile, Argentina, Colombia, Costa Rica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama and Uruguay- could be defined as States under popular rule. Said Strong Man Benavides, with more subtlety than he perhaps intended: "We cannot offer you, on as grand a scale as some of the other American nations, the harmonious spectacle of a great city that could shelter you as could other capitals. But we do claim your attention to the evolutionary processes of our nationality...
...Lima showed that they have by no means removed it. Well organized last week was opposition by the ABC powers (Argentina, Brazil, Chile) and other nations to confirming at Lima the proposals for a Little League of Nations and Little World Court, which Colombia and the Dominican Republic introduced out of friendliness to the U. S. at Buenos Aires two years ago. And toward Franklin Roosevelt's program for Continental Solidarity against Fascism, Latin American response has been noncommittal and cautious. Cordell Hull will have to be equally cautious about defining the limits of the Good Neighbor Policy: there...
...With Belgium, Haiti, Sweden, Brazil, Canada, The Netherlands and colonies, Switzerland, Honduras, Colombia, France and colonies, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Finland, Costa Rica, Salvador, Czechoslovakia, Ecuador. Special pact: Cuba...
...Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Costa Rica, Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador, Mexico, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, Venezuela...