Word: inter-american
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...come to Buenos Aires at the invitation of Juan Peron and his General Confederation of Workers (C.G.T.). They also intended to "survey" Argentine labor and to find out whether C.G.T.'s 800,000 card holders (about 60% of all Argentine workers) would make suitable members for a projected Inter-American Federation of Labor. At week's end, though one delegate complained of being taken on "Russian tours," all were still hopeful that the Inter-American Federation could be formed, as a rival to the left-wing Latin-American Federation of Labor, which is affiliated with the C.I.O...
...Revolving Door. Haiti, whither the disease was brought by slaves from Africa in 1509, now has the world's highest incidence of yaws. Since 1943 the U.S. Sanitary Mission, backed by $150,000 from the State Department's Institute of Inter-American Affairs and an equal amount from the Haitian Government, has worked hard on a project to eradicate the disease in selected districts of southern Haiti...
Never before had they heard or seen such a speaker. He cracked jokes, talked fast, talked slow, beat his chest with his fists, waved his arms in circles, crouched, whirled, broke off his most telling sentences to invite applause. In the hall of Panama City's Inter-American University, Panamanian students roared approval. Yes, they liked the man from Peru, Victor Raul Haya de la Torre...
...best hope for uniting the nations of Central America was the still uncompleted Inter-American highway. Binding together the five mountain-bound capitals, carrying goods and ideas as daily freight, it might win where a century of diplomacy had failed...
Similar anti-Soviet democratic leagues would include the already existing Inter-American League, the nations of the British Commonwealth, China, and, before too long, Japan...