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Official Washington saw a good deal of the dark, eloquent visitor who has come to symbolize the will toward hemisphere cooperation: Mexican Foreign Minister Ezequiel Padilla (TIME, April 6). Washington liked what it saw-a man whose genuineness is as obvious as his grace...
...Ezequiel Padilla, as Secretary of Public Education from 1929 to 1930, helped to build Mexico's modern school system. He himself was born, the son of a local lawyer, in a mountain village in Guerrero, over the mountain ranges southwest of the capital. When his father died, his mother taught school so that he could have an education. He won a village scholarship to go to a state high school, a state scholarship to go to the University of Mexico, a Government scholarship for two years at the Sorbonne. He got his education in Mexico at the time when...
...great day for the Americas. The man whom Mexico sent on a visit to the U.S.-her Foreign Minister-was in sober truth as great a statesman and as big a figure in hemisphere affairs as any to be found in Washington. Ezequiel Padilla was not only the man whose eloquence swayed the Rio Conference to support the United Nations; he was the symbol of the coming of age of the American republics...
American Man. Though Ezequiel Padilla came to Washington-so far as he or the State Department would admit-on no greater mission than to perfect the details of Mexican-U.S. cooperation, it was high time that the U.S. paid heed to even the routine comings & goings of such a man. In Brazil-which like the U.S. is not a Spanish-speaking country-Padilla is already known. Before he left there last January, samba bands dedicated songs to him. Mobs cheered him in the streets. Women tossed orchids to him. Some admirers even talked of him as "The American...
Although an immediate unanimous diplomatic rupture with the Axis had been thwarted by Chilean-Argentine opposition. Statesman Welles and such other notable statesmen as Brazil's President Getulio Vargas and Foreign Minister Oswaldo Aranha, Mexico's Foreign Minister Ezequiel Padilla and Uruguay's Alberto Guanú had given new meaning to the term Americanism. They had preserved the moral unity of the 21 Nations, driven Axis diplomats from 19 of them, and throttled Axis trade. With resolutions calling for economic mobilization and the unification of hemisphere defenses, they had begun the task of making America economically...