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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...State announced that Phil Jessup was sticking to his decision to leave Government service next March. His notice followed by a week the resignation of Policy Planner George ("Mr. X") Kennan, who will leave in June after spending the most of the next six months reviewing U.S. policy in Latin America and Africa. Like Kennan, Jessup yearned for the quiet of academic life. He reckoned he was just about eleven months behind schedule in returning to the Hamilton Fish Chair of International Law and Diplomacy at Columbia where, a scholarly friend explained, he had some "grinding" thinking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: The Professorr Is Out | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

Critics of the State Department's Latin American policy noted impatiently that its "recognize-and-deplore" formula had given little but cold comfort to democrats in Venezuela, Peru and Colombia. Acheson was aware of the criticism, but he applied the formula again, apparently in an effort to show that it can sometimes get results...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Deplorable You | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

...statement drew applause from other Latin nations. Even Trujillo's old ally, Nicaraguan Dictator "Tacho" Somoza, spoke up: "Nicaragua knows how to settle its problems with its neighbors through the inter-American peace machinery. It's a shame that the Dominican Republic can't handle its grievances that way." At week's end, Latin diplomats were laying odds that the point would not be lost on lonely Trujillo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Deplorable You | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

Buenos Aires matrons sighed with nostalgic rapture. Not in eight years had their radios brought them the rich, persuasive tenor of José Mojica, onetime idol of Latin women up & down the hemisphere. But last week he was back once again, on a program sponsored by a B.A. department store. José's programs were no longer filled with rollicking Mexican airs and passionate love songs. Handsome José, now a greying 54, had long since given up the luxury and adulation of a movie star's life and become a Franciscan monk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: Singing Soldier | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

...words of St. Paul (Galatians 6:17), "From henceforth let no man trouble me: for I bear in my body the marks of the Lord Jesus," have led to some speculation that he may have carried the stigmata (Latin for marks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Stigmatist | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

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