Word: latin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...State Department's new superintendent of Latin American affairs got down to business in a hurry. Arriving in Washington last week from Honduras, where he had just shucked his job as the U.S.'s second youngest Ambassador,* 44-year-old Paul Daniels showed up at his green-carpeted office the first morning at a quarter to nine. As Director of the Office of American Republics Affairs (ARA), he knew he had his work cut out for him. Besides riding herd on 20 U.S. Ambassadors south of the border, he will be the top-level State Department contact...
Planner. The first morning, Paul Daniels summoned his deputy, Robert F. Woodward, and spent an hour with him going over general diplomatic problems. Then, at 10:30, Career Man Daniels, who has worked all over Latin America in 20 years of foreign service, hustled off to the Pan American Union to tackle his toughest assignment of the moment. As U.S. representative on the Inter-American Economic and Social Council, Daniels was soon knee-deep in planning for the Pan American Conference to be held at Bogo ta in January. On the council's work largely depends the success...
...Latin Americans have a lot of ideas about what should be done at Bogota, particularly in the economic field. Most Latin American nations are hungry for dollars, many have full-blown inflation. Colombia last week outlined to the Pan American Union planners a scheme for a $5 billion U.S. loan to finance industrialization of Latin America, stabilize local currencies. In Rio de Janeiro, U.S. -wise Brazilian Businessman Valentim Bougas urged Latin Americans to follow the ex ample of European nations, which met in Paris last summer to canvass their needs. Latin delegates, Bougas said, should get together at Bogota...
...Marshall Plan. But he was being consistent. The Marshall Plan, he fears, will be bad for Brazilian business as well as for Europe's Communists. His reasoning, as he laid it down to the Inter-American Council of Production and Commerce at Petrópolis: if Latin America must increase its exports of raw materials and foodstuffs to Europe by 30 to 50% in the next four years, as the plan calls for, another "war economy" will develop. Then workers will be drawn from industry into low-profit farming and mining; import of U.S. machinery will be difficult because...
Judging from the samplings in Unseen Harvests, students weren't the only unhappy ones. Stephen Leacock, who put in eight years as a Latin teacher before becoming an economics professor, recalled the unexpected meetings with former students ("Do you remember me," they always seemed to say, "You licked me at Upper Canada College"). More exasperating were pupils whose parents did their lessons for them: "I used to say to them: 'Paul, tell your father that he must use the ablative after pro.' " But there was always a bright spot, wrote Leacock. "It is the last...