Word: latin-american
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...very day that a German major-general urged the wholesale peaceful invasion of Latin America by the cultural prophets of the German Reich, in the economic sphere the United States launched its first major counter-attack against Nazi penetration of South America. The United States-Brazil trade agreements put a sudden halt to the growth of the German economic domination of Brazil, and provided a strong impulse to the growth of closer economic alliance of the United States with its Latin-American neighbors...
...result in close cultural relations and quite possibly military arrangements. Although the latter were ummentioned in the pact, there has been considerable discussion about making America's armament supplies available for her poorly armed Southern neighbor. Secondly, the Brazilian Pact may set in motion a series of United States, Latin-American trade arrangements that will change the whole complexion of the South American situation. The closer the Pan-American ties become, the less the danger of European totalitarian philosophy, and the brighter the future of freedom and free trade, at least in the Western Hemisphere...
President Franklin D. Roosevelt '04 has taken a leading hand in the promotion of the drive to raise funds for Latin-American scholarships by writing a strong endorsement of the proposal from the White House, the committee announced today...
...Undergraduate sponsors issued a preliminary call for funds, the President complimented there on their "serious effort" and stated that "a very real need" exists for the extension of cultural appreciation between the United States and the Latin-American nations...
...Walker, treasurer of the Democratic Party in the 1933 campaign and member of the National Economics Research Board, had given the students his personal endorsement. Bringing 12 or 15 scholars to Harvard, Walker felt, is perhaps one of the most fundamental contributions that America could make towards promoting Latin-American friendship...