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Nearly 24 hours before reaching Buenos Aires, Franklin Roosevelt's second official reception began. The Argentine battleships Rivadavia and Moreno, cruiser Almirante Brown and eight destroyers sighted the Indianapolis and its escort Chester off the coast of Uruguay, fired 21 guns and formed up behind as escort. When the Indianapolis arrived in Buenos Aires, President Justo and practically the entire Argentine and U. S. delegations to the Peace Conference were on the dock in top hats and full official regalia. "Mi amigo!" exclaimed Linguist Roosevelt as he seized his peer's hand and did one of his "great...
...Charleston with Governor Johnston of South Carolina and Mayor Maybank beside him he drove through two miles of cheering crowds to the Navy dock. There lay the fast cruiser Indianapolis, her rails lined with blue jackets at attention. Accompanied only by his son James, his son's friend Edward" Gallagher, his Military and Naval aides and White House physician, the President climbed the gangplank and was piped aboard. He ascended to the bridge, waved good-by and promised, "I'm going to have a good time...
...Franklin Roosevelt disappeared hull down over the public horizon. Through daylight and darkness he ploughed ahead at 25 knots for three whole days during which the nearest newshawks were the three representatives of the press associations who followed with the Secret Service men half a mile behind on the cruiser Chester. On the fourth morning when the cruisers dropped anchor to refuel at Port of Spain, Trinidad, the newshawks had a peek at him. Only news they got was that he and his mother had been in Port of Spain on a cruise 32 years before...
When President Roosevelt got down to work, there was a lot to do and only ten days to do it in. Next week, he announced, he would go to Charleston, board the fast cruiser Indianapolis and probably speed under forced draft all the way to Buenos Aires to make a speech at the opening session of the Pan-American Peace Conference. Meantime he saw his Cabinet, consulted Budget Director Bell, for a Budget has to be made up before Congress convenes on Jan. 5. To questions of newshawks about new Cabinet members, he answered by saying all that would have...
During the week Madrid denials made no impression on Argentine authorities who affirmed at Buenos Aires that the President of Spain, corpulent regular Republican Manuel Azaña was about to seek refuge in the Argentine Embassy. They said he had appealed to have the Argentine cruiser Veinticinco de Mayo stand by at the Spanish port of Alicante, ready to rescue the President, his pretty young wife and other prominent Republicans from the expected fury of Madrid's proletariat. Dressed always in proletarian blue overalls, Premier Largo Caballero was said to be holding President Azaña virtually...