Word: latinities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...weeks of squabbling stripped the Declaration of much of its psychological force to the dictator countries of Europe and even in the Americas. Nazi news-sheets dubbed the Conference "U. S. Failure No. 1." Many Latin American delegations were disappointed that Mr. Hull failed to assume stronger leadership. But the Declaration went further than the 1936 solidarity pact of Buenos Aires in providing for mutual consultation in a crisis...
...unanimously passed resolution recommending legislation to prevent foreigners resident in the Americas from exercising collective political rights claimed for them by their countries of origin. Under this restriction it is doubtful whether even a U. S. citizen resident in a Latin American State would be allowed to exercise his absentee vote in the U. S. Hence the U. S. delegation voted for a measure which, if passed, would probably be most unpopular at home. But the measure's chief benefit was obviously to Argentina, Brazil and Chile, where large German and Italian blocs have been agitating for minority rights...
...week Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, Lord Baldwin's successor, decided to defend his old Cabinet colleague. Invited to deliver the main speech at the 50th anniversary dinner of London's Foreign Press Association, which includes in its membership German as well as U. S., French, Italian, Polish, Latin American correspondents, Mr. Chamberlain, in preparing his speech, inserted amidst paragraphs of amiable generalities one moderate sentence of criticism...
...heard that he had been chosen a Rhodes Scholar from the New England district. The scholarship board called him one of the most unusual students ever to win a scholarship. Scholar Roosevelt is completing the regular four-year course at Harvard in three years, reads 13 languages (English, Greek, Latin, French, Italian, Icelandic, German, Gaelic, Welsh, Anglo-Saxon, Arabic, Russian, Middle High German...
...extracurricular way, Roosevelt is secretary of the independents, under graduate organization operating under the slogan of "the middle way." At present he is a member of the committee for the Latin American scholarships which is endeavoring to offer to Latin American students an opportunity to study at Harvard...