Word: interallied
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Costa Rica, alone among the American republics, boycotted the Tenth Inter-American Conference at Caracas as a form of protest against the jailing of political prisoners by the Venezuelan government. But when he announced Costa Rica's decision, President Jose Figueres made a promise that his country would "adhere to any inter-American resolutions taken there for the betterment of democracy...
...reason for this is spirit and laissez-faire. Nobody pushes, but there is strong cohesion and things are accomplished. There is no rah-rah dinner-table cheering, but Leverett's football team won the inter-House title, nevertheless...
...Committee on Houses also rejected an alternate proposal of one Housemaster to give Claverly special inter-House privileges at Adams and Lowell for breakfast...
...such breast-beating session Henry Holland, the U.S.'s new Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American affairs, finally managed to get a laugh from the glum Latins. Their responsibility, he reminded them, was not very different from that of the suitor who was asked by his beloved's father whether his intentions were honorable or dishonorable, and countered: "Do I have a choice...
...Condemned racial discrimination and called for laws to end it. 1$ Decided to hold a full-dress conference on hemisphere economic problems in Rio (rather than Washington) next fall. Debated questions of human rights, the right of asylum, and revision of the Bogota pact for obligatory settlement of inter-American disputes, and agreed to act on all items in time to adjourn next week...