Word: latine
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...read TIME occasionally in a friend library. In your edition Aug. 1, p.13, heading NICARAGUA I can notice upon reading the contents, that the American public is misinformed in regard to the State Department policy in Latin America...
Proposal. Seiler Enrique Villegas (Chile), President of the League Council, astounded Geneva when he virtually declared in a public session that he saw no reason why the League should not interest itself in Latin-American affairs. It was even thought that the League might be asked to settle the long outstanding Tacna-Arica dispute (TIME, June 21, 28, 1926). Said British Foreign Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain: "The League of Nations must become a reality, a personality in the eyes of the more distant nations belonging...
Inge predicted, in the London Evening Standard, that in 2000 A. D. a federation of Latin American republics and the U. S. would constitute the two greatest world powers, European states-save possibly Russia-becoming "relatively unimportant...
...Latin America. None is to blame, but the U. S. occupies a position of unrivaled dominance in the western hemisphere. "There is no balance of power. The tune of this hemisphere is a monotone."?Professor William R. Shepherd of Columbia University...
While the Williamstown vigilantes talked and pondered, other conferences planned after the Williamstown model concluded or prepared to begin talking, pondering. The Institute of Pacific Relations closed in Honolulu. A two-day conference of Latin-America was completed at the University of New Hampshire. And at the University of Virginia, halls were swept for an Institute of Public Affairs, designed to air chiefly domestic problems of the U. S. Among the vigilantes scheduled to appear at Charlottesville, Va., were Governors Alfred E. Smith of New York, Albert C. Ritchie of Maryland, Harry F. Byrd of Virginia, Director of the Budget...