Word: latin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Meanwhile, the President had only to polish the speeches he is to deliver this week at the closing session of Rio's Inter-American Defense Conference and the joint session of the Brazilian Congress, and get set for a round of official festivities unmatched in Brazilian history (see LATIN AMERICA). At the request of Brazilian President Eurico Gaspar Dutra, he would extend his stay from five to seven days, to help celebrate Brazil's 125th Independence Day. The big fiesta would be a pleasure for Harry Truman, who always has a wonderful time and does a wonderful good...
...private Petrópolis villa on the Rua 7 de Septembro, and by 10, having read the dispatches from Nanking and Athens, was conferring with his aides in his yellow-&-green Suite 200 at the Quitandinha. Ambassadors William Dawson and Walter Donnelly were acquainted with every Latin American problem, and Donnelly seemed to know every Latin delegate. Bill Pawley was sharp on Brazilian angles. Shrewd Norman Armour, onetime Ambassador in B.A., understood the Argentine way of thinking. Arthur Vandenberg's practiced eye never wandered off the high policy line...
...Latin Liking. The Secretary got home for a 2 o'clock lunch and a quiet 7:30 dinner. For exactly one hour after dinner, unless there were guests, he played Chinese checkers with Mrs. Marshall.*Then he retired. At week's end he lunched in Rio with President Dutra. Another day he turned up unexpectedly at a Quitandinha horse show named in his honor "The General Marshall Trials." Mrs. Marshall bought him a bag of popcorn. He handed it right down to two small boys who had been staring at Irm for all they were worth from beneath...
Like Cordell Hull before him, Marshall made the rounds of the Latin chiefs of mission. The Latinos liked him. Said Peru's slim Foreign Minister Enrique Garcia Sayan: "He has gone far beyond the needs of diplomatic good taste." Flanked by Armour and Donnelly, Marshall paid a visit to Quitandinha's Suite 400, the rooms of Argentine Foreign Minister Juan Bramuglia. The Argentines served beer, whiskey, potato chips, but the abstemious Marshall took nothing. When he left, an Argentine said: "The conference is all fixed...
Velasco took office the second time proclaiming his "profoundly leftist soul," but soon the country swung right and Velasco swung with it. This burned up the army, one of the few in Latin America with longtime leftist sympathies. In addition to its other failings, the Velasco Government had done little to combat the country's postwar inflation, which is one of the highest in the hemisphere. Last week the Sucre, which was once a worker's daily wage, stood at 13 to the dollar...