Word: havana
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Certainly the absence of Argentina in the democratic lineup will be sorely felt, but that is no reason for compromising with her. The State Department has indicated that it has abandoned the five-year policy of meaningless compromise with the Argentine isolationists. That policy vitiated the Havana Conference, and its application at this time, considering the tendencies of the government in power in Buenos Aires, would be no less than isolation...
...Guatemala confiscated its German-owned railway, heard with satisfaction that Dr. Otto Reinebeck, German Minister to Central America who tried to torpedo the Havana Conference in 1940 and who was expelled from headquarters in Guatemala, had been met when his ship docked in Brooklyn, escorted to a reunion with other German diplomats at White Sulphur Springs, W.Va...
Argentina. From South America's stronghold of isolationism, despite earlier fears of noncooperation, came strong assurances that Argentina would stand by her Havana Convention commitments (defining aggression against one American nation as aggression against the others). Chile and Argentina debated retirement of an agreement whereby the Strait of Magellan was to remain demilitarized perpetually...
...series of articles he wrote on Spain's cruelty to Cubans was credited with an assist toward the U.S. declaration of war on Spain. One midnight with a party of Cubans he spirited beautiful 18-year-old Evangelina Cisneros, daughter of a Cuban revolutionary, out of a Havana jail cell. Her window bars were filed, she was hoisted to the roof by rope and taken in boy's clothing to a chartered steamer. On her arrival in Manhattan she got a heroine's reception, and she and Decker were later feted at the White House...
Week-End in Havana (20th Century Fox), Darryl Zanuck's third Good-Neighborly jaunt to a Latin American capital, is a Technicolored fortnight of lazing about, with songs, dances and Carmen Miranda. In its way, it is pleasantly subtropical...