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Grisolia. During October U. S. Army Chief of Staff George Catlett Marshall had entertained two batches of Latin-American military missions, taken them on tours of arsenals and munitions plants, shown them U. S. equipment at work or in blueprints, endeavored to impress them with...
strength-in-the-making. More than half the $500,000,000 recently added to the Export-Import Bank's kitty to help Latin America economically will be lent for the purchase of arms (see p. 65), for the equipment of most Latin-American armies and navies is obsolete...
...Panama locale, lusciously tinted by Designer Raoul Pène du Bois, who has also clothed a luscious chorus line in just the right places, gives Cole Porter a chance to indulge his talent for Latin-American rhythms (previous examples: Begin the Beguine, I Get A Kick Out of You}. The Porterian lyric wit is displayed in a trio and quintet titled, respectively, God Bless the Women and You Said It. The tune that seems likely to prove most durable is Panama Hattie's response, in rumba rhythm, to temporary disappointment in love: "Make it another oldfashioned, please...
...American people have subscribed to Pan-Americanism and hemisphere defense whole-heartedly. Roosevelt has been a great exponent of the Good Neighbor policy. But Americans have very little realization of what they are dealing with. Politicians and even newspaper men writing from South America refer to the common desire of all the American nations to preserve democracy in the western hemisphere. The truth is that democracy as we know it does not exist south of the Rio Grande. Latin-America is more akin to the "old world" than the United States both culturally and economically. We must face the fact...
...When Moscow shifted so did he, screaming denunciation of the U. S., President Roosevelt, Great Britain and the Monroe Doctrine without losing a beat. Four months ago, under pressure from President Cárdenas, he changed horses again, unblushingly declared: "There was never truer friendship between North American and Latin-American peoples...