Word: latin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last day in Rio was topped off by reviewing a three-hour military parade celebrating Brazil's 125th anniversary of independence (see LATIN AMERICA). Then he boarded the Missouri for a long, leisurely voyage home...
...early to drive the 45 miles through Rio's encircling mountains to Petrópolis, where the delegates to the Inter-American Defense Conference awaited him. Truman's speech was roundly applauded. He made emphatic what Secretary of State Marshall had already indicated, that Latin American economic needs must wait on those of Europe. In fact, Truman told the delegates, he hoped that the American nations, "each according to its ability and in its own manner," would contribute something themselves...
Acts of God. Mexico, one of the most confident of Latin American countries, is full of the desire for better food, better education, more comforts. That is the legacy of the Revolution. But its hopes are still far from fulfillment. Land reform is 30 years old-but Mexico does not yet raise enough food to feed itself. War-born industries are wobbly. Unemployment is growing. Furthermore, in recent months, nature has been anti-Mexican. Aftosa, the destructive foot-&-mouth disease, has crippled the basic cattle industry. A locust plague has stripped the Tehuantepec Isthmus. There has been widespread drought. There...
...Ottawa Journal: "In a Pan American Union, Canada would almost inevitably side with the United States. Doing so, we should incite South American suspicion; have the Latin Republics believe that we were part of a North American bloc . . . subservient to a 'big stick' from Washington. Better . . . [to] be regarded as neutral, or, better still, as a friend...
Died. Manuel Rodriguez, 30, "Manolete, El Monstruo" (the monster), the greatest bullfighter of his day, the idol of millions of Spaniards and Latin Americans; from traumatic shock after a cornada (horn wound); in Linares, Spain (see INTERNATIONAL...