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Doughty General Agustin Justo, President of Argentina, has long been running this Republic in a manner smacking of Dictatorship. While still acting as Foreign Minister, Dr. Saavedra Lamas expects soon to retire. Not being in sympathy with Dictatorship, he gave the Monroe Doctrine a clever new twist, managed to make a speech which created a Latin-American sensation and which hardly could have been delivered in General Justo's Argentina had it been less clever...
...fearsome reputation for himself in Santiago by angrily shooting a panther for misbehaving in a circus and by beating up a journalist who accused him of misbehaving as Santiago's customs administrator, stormed into Havana last year as a Senator for the first time. When Senate President Justo Luis del Pozo resigned in a huff over patronage, hard-boiled Boss Batista liked hard-boiled new Senator Illas well enough to help boost him into the Senate's presidency. First thing the Senate knew, President Illas lost his temper again. One day when his 62-year-old uncle...
...President Justo was embarrassed at the momentary painful scene in the Chamber of Deputies, smiling President Roosevelt was not.* When young Heckler Justo cried out, President Roosevelt merely waved aside the interruption benignantly and began: "Members of the American family of nations. My friends:" Hastily the delegates clapped earphones on their heads to hear his words simultaneously translated into Portuguese (for the Brazilians), French (for the Haitians), Spanish (for other Latin Americans).† Little world-shaking advice did the President have to give but he won loud applause when he declared: "Can we, the republics of the New World, help...
Next noon Agustin Justo and 73 others lunched officially at the U. S. Embassy and Franklin Roosevelt made them a practical little speech assuring them that he would do his best to have modified the quarantine restriction which keeps Argentine meat out of the U. S.* By way of gratitude for this friendliness, the Argentine Co-Operative of Meat Producers sent the carcasses of six swine and six lambs, also six beef tenderloins and a choice assortment of veal kidneys down to the Indianapolis as a parting gift...
...deck of the Indianapolis final farewells took place. Host Justo presented his guest with a poncho made of virgin vicuna wool. The two Presidents exchanged a genuine bear hug. Everyone else was shaken by the hand and touched to the heart. The last that Buenos Aires saw of Franklin Roosevelt he was standing on the bridge as the Indianapolis pulled out into sluggish, shoreless Rio de la Plata, waving a blue and white scarf, the national colors of Argentina...