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...bout between Bolivia and Paraguay. Actually the favorable opportunity was created not in the jungles of the Chaco but in the long corridors of the U. S. State Department. Part of it was the long planning of Assistant Secretary of State Sumner Welles, one of the abler gentlemen in Latin-American diplomacy. More of it was a wholly new era of U. S.-Latin-American relations resulting from Cordell Hull's inability to be anything but a kindly judge from Tennessee. The rest of it was Franklin Roosevelt...
...American conferences in the world will not keep the United States out of another world conflict, unless Washington, in cooperation with the Latin-American desire for organized peace, takes bold steps to crush the opportunity for commercial profit from a foreign war. Politically this country is isolated from Europe, but not so commercially...
...perspicacious student of every wind that blows in Europe, found it necessary, in a recent talk on the Spanish situation, to deal only with Spain's relation to the rest of Europe and not at all with the government at Madrid. Spain is having no conventional uprising of the Latin-American variety; it is a revolution in the bloodiest and most violent sense of the word. Newspapermen Harry Gannes and Theodore Repard have assembled a background of Spanish history and recordel a series of facts that are essential to an understanding of the struggle in Spain today...
...refer to the statement: "Beginning with the admission that 'for some reason, completely obscure to me, there is an amazing lack of interest in the United States in Latin-American affairs,' Author Rourke gives facts that quickly answer his question...
...President Roosevelt received cordial responses from most of the Latin-American executives to whom he wrote early in 1936 suggesting (1 abolition of the Monroe Doctrine 2 a Pan-American conference at Buenos Aires, 3 abolition of tariffs between nations in the western hemisphere, 4 a unilateral treaty of mutual assistance, 5 co-operation to restore order in Venezuela...