Word: latin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lurid violence. Samples: 1) borrowing a time-worn page from the Aztecs, a boy cut out his beloved's heart; 2) using a sharp hatchet, a man chopped his wife into small pieces as she lay in bed with their two-year-old daughter. Last week the Latin American Congress of Criminologists picked Rio as the site of their 1946 convention...
...hours students, angry at the postponement, paraded through the Latin Quarter throwing cherry pits at cops, who struck back with rolled-up capes. Hundreds stormed the Education Ministry, demanding an explanation. Said an official: there had been corruption in the Ministry. For a promised (but undelivered) 10,000 francs, an underpaid functionary named Rene Houel had handed out an advance copy of the exams. In Latin Quarter cafes, the pirated exam papers had sold for 30,000 francs, and had been distributed so widely that the price fell to 2,000 francs. Elaine's question about Captain Forester...
...said the State Department's Jimmy Byrnes, War's General Dwight Eisenhower and Navy's Admiral Chester Nimitz. They asked Congress for permission to train the Latin Americans in U.S. military dogma and arm them with U.S. guns, ships and planes. They want the hemisphere (Canada could come in, too, if it liked) equipped with interchangeable weapons and trained in a common technique...
Democracy for Defense. However much the U.S. disclaimed any intention of starting an arms race south of the border, many a sincere Latin American democrat was worried by the prospect of more pistols for Panchito. "The intentions, as almost invariably, are sterling. The effects, deplorable," said one thoughtful Latin American last week. "You equip a dictator's army to modern standards and you provide the dictator with an unfailing instrument to perpetuate his tyranny. Do the same in a fledgling Latin American democracy, and you strengthen the already heady military caste...
...Sending tanks to Latin America is not a very serious contribution to hemispheric defense. The tanks only become obsolete. However, build highways, dams, power plants and you produce, as a byproduct, mechanics. In an international emergency a modern mechanized army can be organized from those mechanics far more efficiently than from drilled soldiers who have not yet developed the mentality of a mechanical age. And highways and dams bolster a democracy instead of undermining...