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Minus their leader but confident of their ability to maintain a stand against the Colossus of the North, the Argentinian delegates to the Inter-American conference landed at Rio de Janeiro late Monday afternoon to find an immense crowd lining the seawall which overlooks the airbase. Thousands of expectant Brazilians were waiting for something, but it was not for the Argentine delegation. Five minutes later, however, while the Buenos Aires representatives were still on the scene, a huge, forty-ton Yankee clipper zoomed out of the skies an disgorged its immaculate cargo, Under-Secretary of State Sumner Welles, complete with...
Died. Eduardo Hay, 64, Mexico's Secretary of Foreign Affairs (1935-40) under President Lazaro Cardenas; in Mexico City. He championed the expropriation of foreign-owned oil, at the same time plumped for inter-American solidarity...
...censorship was in force: For straight news broadcasts, both domestic and short-wave stations were sticking to press-association material-meaning material that is certainly going to be played safe (see p. 60). Material prepared for short-wave use only, by the Coordinator of Information, the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs or wire services, was censored by the Navy in Manhattan before being sent to stations. Analysts and commentators were still on their own, but were asked, both by the Government and by the National Association of Broadcasters, to use care in speculation. Radio reporters, e.g., in Washington, were expected...
...page monthly picture magazine, En Guardia ("For the Defense of the Americas"), was sent to 80,000 leading citizens of Latin America (special leather-bound copies went to Latin America's 20 Presidents). Publisher: Nelson Rockefeller's Committee on Inter-American Affairs. Lavish with color plates, fancy printing and paper, the first issue was devoted to picture propaganda for the U.S. Navy-almost as impressive as a visit from the fleet. Later issues will contain less color, more text, will cost U.S. taxpayers less money, but will have impressive picture spreads demonstrating U.S. potency. And 20,000 copies...
...Inter-American Financial and Economic Advisory Committee, meeting in Washington, agreed to operate in Western Hemisphere trade some 80 immobilized German, Italian and Danish...