Word: havana
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Although the Government had said it would grant exemptions to women with American diplomats sat listening in the gallery. It was the strongest, straightest expression of Hemisphere solidarity to come from Latin America since the Havana Conference. Said Dr. Padilla: "It is the destiny of America to fight, and the Mexican people are determined to share this destiny. We must therefore prepare to cooperate ardently, not in aggression but in defense of this hemisphere, to preserve it as the example and hope of world fraternity and justice...
Author was Charles Wertenbaker TIME'S Forelgn News Editor. His book begins with Sept. 27, 1940-the day that Germany, Italy and Japan loudly proclaimed their alliance against the U. S. Same day the U.S. Senate ratified the Act of Havana. That Act provided that the American republics might seize any European possessions in this hemisphere which were threatened by other European powers. The Havana conference also agreed 1) that foreign aggression against any one of the 21 American republics is aggression against all; 2) that they should cooperate for mutual defense...
...seems to beat his breast a little too fiercely over the past sins of Yankee imperialism. But this is a question of emphasis. To critics who fear that the new doctrine of hemispheric solidarity may supplant the Monroe Doctrine, he gives a flat no. "What was done at the Havana conference . . . did not make the Monroe Doctrine multilateral. The Monroe Doctrine was, and is, a unilateral declaration of U. S. policy against Europe. . . . The new doctrine ... is multilateral and does two things...
...Havana, where his prancing Dodgers, looking less than ever like the flyblown crocks who were once Brooklyn's most predictable annual ornament, were fixing to lick the Giants, the draft (see p. 51), and all baseball attendance records, brash, red-haired Flatbush Boss Larry ("Barnum") MacPhail welcomed another boss to the Dodgers' Havana training ground, shook cordial hands with brash, black-haired Cuban President Fulgencio Batista...
...Boston fisherman he spent two years on the Grand Banks. For a few months he took fishing parties out of Gloucester on his own yacht, Vagrant, got his master's papers while he was working as a fireman aboard the steamship Florida between Miami and Havana...