Word: colombia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...curious and almost like a fairy tale come to life." The councilors went through their paces like actors in a tediously familiar tragedy of manners. They voted down Gromyko, paragraph by paragraph, with only the pale hand of Poland's Oscar Lange raised with Gromyko's. Later Colombia suggested a compromise which called for the creation of a new, slightly modified Balkan Commission. Gromyko said the Colombia proposal was simply the old U.S. resolution with a "wash, a haircut, powder and lipstick...
Founding Father. The workers in Mexico, the speaker in Central Park, and many another who marked the day, remembered that Bolívar was the liberator of four countries: his native Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, an area ten times the size of mother Spain; that he founded a fifth, Bolivia, once known as Upper Peru. They forgot his fatal quarrels with associates...
...lifetime. No envoys appeared from Argentina, Brazil, Chile or Bolivia; of two U.S. representatives, one died before he got to Panama, the other arrived too late. But a pattern was set for future meetings of American republics. Bolívar had other disappointments. Venezuela joined Ecuador and Colombia in withdrawing from the federated Great Colombia he had built. His famous general, Antonio José Sucre, was assassinated. He wrote in despair: "Those who worked for South American freedom have plowed...
France quickly won the support of Australian delegate Col. W. R. Hodgson, who said he would vote for a small "neutral commission, but suggested that it be limited to the six non-permanent members of the Council--Australia, Colombia, Brazil, Syria, Poland, and Belgium...
...Alfonso Lopez, of Colombia, objected that "it is idle to think that if the big five cannot agree among themselves that they will follow a non-permanent member...