Word: latin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Latin American military attachés in Washington were down in the dumps last week. After all the fine talk since war's end about U.S. arms for the Americas, the news had leaked out that the Truman Administration's arms program would leave the Good Neighbors out in the cold...
...five other strategic countries outside the Hemisphere. Awareness that the U.S. could not arm the whole world at the same time did not soften the blow. It only aggravated the soreness already caused by U.S. preoccupation with other areas as evidenced by EGA. One attache blurted out: "We Latin Americans have been getting the leftovers ever since the end of the war. Now it seems that we are not even going to get any more leftovers...
Last week a new and very different regional I.L.O. convened in Montevideo. In the three years since Mexico City, Latin American labor movements have pretty well repudiated Communist leaders. Of the 280 delegates and advisers at the meeting (from all countries except Peru, Venezuela, Honduras and Paraguay), Communists numbered so few that they even had trouble making much noise. Lombardo Toledano was absent...
...Latin purists, some criti- cisms can be offered. Lines were spoken far too quickly in many cases, and some niceties of the language could not be appreciated. (Cries of "Tardius!" came from last night's audience, and the troupe will probably take the hint tonight.) In fact, perhaps the whole performance is keyed at slightly too fast a tempo; but that is far better than dragging...
There was a good-sized audience last night. Unfortunately, it appeared to be composed largely of patrons of the classics. You don't have to be a Latin genius to understand and enjoy the play, and a lot of people are going to be missing out on a good time if they don't see it before it closes tonight