Word: latin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Does he believe that TIME'S beautiful report on itself in the 28th Anniversary issue would have been better journalism with the so-called "16-cylinder words" and "Latin terms" hacked...
Unfortunately, the mounting pressure of world events forced us to postpone the forum indefinitely. As things shaped up, statesmen we had invited to speak at the forum found that they could not leave their posts, either in the U.S., Latin America, or Europe. And the month of April, obviously, was going to be a time of further crisis...
...opening session of the ninth International Conference of American States. It took them hardly longer to get down to business, once they convened in the refurbished brownstone Capitolio Nacional. For these representatives of the 21 American republics, two issues overshadowed all others: 1) U.S. economic aid for Latin America, the subject latinos held most vital; 2) Communism in the hemisphere, and how to deal with...
...economic issue was opened. It was Mexico's eloquent Foreign Minister Jaime Torres Bodet who ripped into it. "Of course [European] reconstruction is urgent," he argued, "but is development less urgent when the peoples who seek it live as misrably as most of those who clamor for reconstruction?" Latin America's Indian millions, he thundered, are "the martyrs of peace...
Next day George Marshall answered for the U.S. His Government, he said, would ask World Bank loans for Latin America, and make fresh funds available for new loans from the Export-Import Bank. But the kind of economic development Latin America needed, he said, was simply beyond the U.S. Government's capacity. His suggestion for latinos: invite private capital to help. To show that this need not mean economic bondage, he cited the use the U.S. made of foreign capital in its i gth Century industrialization...