Word: gunther
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gunther does not attempt to give us a scholarly account of the social or economic background of any of the countries he talks about. Such a task would be far beyond his capabilities or ambitions, he asserts. Instead, he has chosen to present a smooth-running account of what he saw and heard in his tour of Lain America. One cannot but marvel that he should so neatly and unfailingly pick out the right amount and mixture of facts, figures, and opinions on which to make his representative characters speak and move about. He is particularly good on such important...
After having played havoc with the best seller lists when he wrote "Inside Europe" and "Inside Asia," John Gunther might well be expected to crash through with another attempt to get "inside" some place or other. And that is exactly what he's done in "Inside Latin America," a racy and thoroughly informative sketch of Latin America, plays Puerto Rico and Trinidad...
There is a lesson for this country, too, contained in Mr. Gunther's volume. It is that we are making a big mistake if we think there is such a thing as an entity of Latin America. Argentina, with its fierce nationalistic complex, differs utterly from gay, easy-going Brazil. Chile has a progressive Popular Front government, Nicaragua is an absolute dictatorship. In short, to understand our neighbors we must understand not one, but twenty one peoples...
Argentina, says Gunther, "is the key to everything"-Latin America's richest, most powerful, most progressive-and "least 'American' " State. "Its roots, its instincts, its markets" are European...
...Gunther has a long section on the rights & wrongs and possible solutions for the U.S.Argentine beef problem. He also discusses such things as why Buenos Aires busses are called mata gent es (man-killers) and their drivers, asesinos (assassins); why Argentina has two Presidents (Roberto Marcelino Ortiz, Dr. Ramon Castillo); why Buenos Aires has two of the world's best newspapers (La Prensa and La Nation); what Argentines think about World War II; what they are doing about their "powerful and dangerous" Fifth Column; why they say: "When the United States talks about bases it is like stamping...