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...every morning crowds of Latin-American delegates had already passed through the great sculptured doors of Cuba's $20,000,000 Capitolio, stood chatting in the lobby at the head of the long flight of marble steps. Only dark patch in the sea of white was the conservative blue business suit draping the lank frame of U. S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull. A long file of big beflagged cars moved slowly through the surrounding palm-shaded park, bringing more conferees to the red-carpeted entrance. By 10 o'clock committees were already at work in secret session...
...Spanish edition will include some articles from Latin-American periodicals. To promote circulation its subscription price will be only $1 a year (price of the U. S. edition: $3), not enough to cover printing and distribution costs. Unlike the U. S. edition, however, the Spanish edition will take advertising. But even with advertising, it is expected to lose $35,000 to $50,000 the first year and, even if it eventually attains a circulation of 200,000 or more, is never expected to make ends meet...
What with Latin-American suspicions, rivalries, fear of the Nazis (see p. 28), the job was bound to be difficult. So formidable was the task that Cordell Hull & colleagues deliberately cultivated the idea that all they hoped for in Havana was "an exchange of information," a common understanding which might be the basis for later, concrete achievement. A big bargaining point was President Roosevelt's plan to up the U. S. Export-Import Bank's capital and lending power $500,000,000 to finance inter-American trade...
...short, if Britain is beaten, there is a prospect that the only genuine security which the U. S. can gain is to set up its own right as mistress of the seas. Any other policy would expose the U. S.'s weak Latin-American flank. But in this policy the U. S. faces a multitude of difficulties. The question is not only Can it be done? but Is the U. S. willing...
...long finger of Cuba poked itself compellingly into the world's ribs last week. Scores of Lions swarmed into Havana for their international conference, found themselves in the middle of a Cuban Presidential election. Amid the traditional Latin-American accompaniment of sporadic shooting scraps, stocky Colonel Fulgencio Batista scored a thumping triumph as expected, complacently proclaimed "overwhelming victory is assured in all six provinces...