Word: havana
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years ago: "The people of the United States will not stand idly by if domination of Canadian soil is threatened by any other empire." It was an inclusion of Canada within the scope of the Monroe Doctrine, especially as the doctrine was broadened to include military agreements at the Havana Conference. The U. S. had set up a defense board with a country at war. Whether that fact meant that President Roosevelt viewed the fall of Britain as an imminent possibility, no one could say. There was no question that he was determined upon speedy action. Back in his study...
...prison cell on the outskirts of Buenos Aires last week marched Enrique P. Oses, editor of the swaggering, German-financed, openly Nazi El Pampero, enjoying a temporary freedom on bail. For months he had trumpeted rabid denunciations of the U. S., of President Roosevelt, of the Havana Conference, of Great Britain with noisy immunity. But last month he offended the Argentine sense of good taste, was whisked off to jail...
...secret was it that unofficial U. S. promises of economic aid had much to do with swinging other countries into line behind the Hull program. Back of the diplomatic front in Havana had worked sever al men who held the strings of the U. S. moneybags: President Milo Randolph Perkins of the Federal Surplus Commodities Corp., Earl N. Bressman, economic adviser to Secretary of Agriculture Henry Agard Wallace, young Paul H. Nitze, adviser to President Roosevelt's $10,000-a-year cartelman, James Vincent Forrestal...
...Argentina, whose people would never fight for islands in the faraway Caribbean, is not likely to ratify the Convention of Havana in a hurry. Having made what she considers concessions in agreeing to the Act of Havana (although Dr. Melo signed with the reservation that his Government must approve), Argentina will most likely delay ratification until she sees whether her commercial future lies with the Americas or with Nazi Europe...
...Mauricio de Nabuco believes that Brazil should follow U. S. policy. This does not keep him from being a shrewd trader. Last week he, too, was on his way to Washington, to collect a few favors for Brazil in return for his pro-U. S. stand at Havana, before going home to Rio de Janeiro to report to his chief, Getulio Vargas. If Senhores Vargas and Nabuco have their way, the best U. S. South American neighbor will be Brazil...