Word: inter-american
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...President and la Señora had gone to their country place at nearby San Vicente, but the President got little rest. Official callers, high among them War Minister Sosa Molina, kept him so busy that he failed to make his scheduled address of welcome to the Inter-American Travel Congress, and sent no regrets for his absence. Without newspapers to give the reason for this strange behavior, rumor-fed Argentines began to talk ominously of political change...
...outgrowth of the wartime U.S. interest in the Amazon's rubber and the Rio Doce's iron and mica, SESP is run jointly by the Brazilian Ministry of Health & Education and the U.S. State Department's Institute of Inter-American Affairs. It is jointly headed by Brazil's curt, round-faced Dr. Marcolino Candau, 37, a Johns-Hopkins-trained carioca, and by IIAA's quietly competent Dr. Eugene Campbell, 41, also a Hopkins product...
...were microphones, movie cameras and diplomats. And there were speeches by Venezuela's visiting President Romulo Gallegos and Foreign Minister Andres Blanco. It seemed more like an ambassador's tea than an art exhibition. But the paintings-hung by the Library of Congress as a gesture of inter-American good, will-spoke anything but the language of diplomacy. The work of a brooding, hollow-cheeked man named Héctor Poleo, they were fierce and fearful as a prophecy of doom...
When he appeared before the Inter-American Association of Broadcasters last week, Perón surprised listeners by coming out for freedom of the air. In the Argentine Congress, opposition deputies, who are never able to get radio time, dared Perón to practice what he preached...
...Argentina, are free to make private contracts with foreign customers (although the U.S. Government has to grant export licenses), that if Argentina had the money, it could buy arms wherever it could find them. The Army itself could do nothing for him until Congress passes the long pigeonholed Inter-American Military Cooperation bill to authorize the U.S. to sell weapons to Latin America at bargain prices...