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...unsuccessful because Argentine army officers had smothered the heckler, were dragging him out of the hall. Out of sight, the heckler's identity was thus concealed from all present except the host of the occasion, Argentina's President Agustin Justo...
...General Justo must have been embarrassed. A few moments before, he had opened the Inter-American Peace Conference with many flattering references to "the illustrious President Roosevelt." The voice from the gallery, well he knew, was that of his own son, handsome Liborio Justo, who only recently had humiliated the President by being deported from Brazil as an undesirable Red. Next day Buenos Aires' papers tactfully refrained from identifying the one voice in South America lifted against Franklin Delano Roosevelt, whose supercharged personality was in the course of bewitching a second continent...
Latin Americans. That afternoon Mr. Hull paid his official call on Argentina's President Agustin Justo and next day he began to make his round of the delegations. At the last Pan-American Conference at Montevideo three years ago Mr. Hull flabbergasted and charmed his Latin-American colleagues: instead of paying them formally arranged visits he dropped in unannounced and waited his turn to be received; instead of going in top hat and cutaway, he clapped his grey fedora on his thin white hair and simply went calling.* As a class, Latin-American diplomats have been schooled abroad...
...school, went to Paris to complete his education, traveled much in Europe, went home to be trained in the anti-U. S. atmosphere of Argentine diplomatic circles. He endowed and sat in a chair of labor legislation at the University of Buenos Aires. In 1932, when General Agustin P. Justo became President after two years of revolutionary government, Dr. Saavedra became Foreign Minister...
Since then he has run Argentina's foreign affairs without brooking any interference from General Justo. Shrewd as well as pompous, he frequently works 20 hours, smokes 100 cigarets a day-often any brand he can borrow from his aides...