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Actually, the Latin countries were far from agreed. Several (including Uruguay, Chile, Cuba, Colombia, Venezuela and Ecuador) were in favor of granting Argentina a hearing. But all agreed to "go along with the majority." Diplomats looked long & hard to find a "majority." What they found was the U.S. State Department...
Nothing quite like it had ever happened before in Ecuador. In a speech before the town council at Cuenca. Alfonso Pena Jaramillo attacked President José Maria Velasco Ibarra, was promptly jailed for showing "disrespect." Just as promptly, the President came to the rescue. Wired President Velasco to Critic Jaramillo: "You have perfect freedom to think, criticize and censure. You have been the victim of an abuse of which I protest as the President of a liberal country...
...peacetime totals are to be found among China and the republics of South America. Argentina outnumbers the other Latin American delegations with 11. Colombia, Chile, Brazil, Mexico, Venezuela, Peru, and Guatemala follow as the list trails off to three students each from Panama and Urugday, two from Bolivia and Ecuador and an aggregate of nine from five islands of the West Indies...
...Argentina, withdrew Ambassador Norman Armour from Buenos Aires, where he had had no official relations with the Government since the accession of President Farrell. Britain obligingly followed suit. So did most of the Latin American nations. Argentina found herself in diplomatic quarantine, recognized only by Chile, Bolivia, Paraguay and Ecuador among Hemisphere nations...
Argentina's demand for a hearing would probably be lost in a maze of diplomatic acrimony. Mexico had already denied her plea. Chile, Ecuador, Colombia and Venezuela had consented-and had had their faces slapped by the U.S. State Department, which wants no open hearing. Many Latin diplomats believe that the system of inter-American consultation has been done to death; that the Good Neighbors were deeply divided, would split into fragments. In this sense, Perón had won again...