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...Norwegian tanker and landed him in Tampico (TIME, Jan. 18), he promptly began to receive appropriate honors as World Revolutionist No. 1. The Republic of Mexico is ruled by a political party whose orators refer to themselves with enthusiasm as "The Revolution! "* Mexico is today the only major Latin-American state whose Government admires Big Reds...
...that broad political developments in South American lands are now nearing the splits into Fascism and Communism which are making Europe feel strange and uncomfortable. In Europe the cleavage is now so sharp that no eminent cleaver is needed, but if Communism is to make further headway in those Latin-American republics which refuse to recognize Russia it needs the stirring glamour of a great Red personality in the Americas...
...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...
...good luck. In spite of his weakness in subordinates, when his chance came he had in Sumner Welles -wasp-waisted, double-breasted, Groton and Harvard, snobbish, capable and stiff-about the best man he could have had to take to Buenos Aires. In the long neglected field of Latin-American diplomacy, Sumner Welles is one of the few trained experts of the U. S.-a veteran of negotiations in Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Honduras, a fluent speaker of Spanish, a man liked by South American diplomats because he years ago attacked the stupid imperialism of past U. S. foreign policy...
...successful was this flagrant breach of Latin-American diplomatic etiquet that Franklin Roosevelt last week copied it, won vivas and much praise at Rio de Janeiro by appearing for his official welcome in a sack suit...