Word: latinized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Latin-American countries were exempt from the most vital provisions (as the President wished...
...privilege is more zealously guarded by Latin American nations than the right of asylum in a foreign embassy or legation. In the topsy-turvy politics of South America no statesman can tell from one day to the next when the wheel of political fortune is going to turn violently against him. It is only practical that he should foster the tradition which provides him a soft spot on which to light in the event of an explosion...
When the Spanish Civil War started, Latin American embassies in Spain gave refuge to and probably saved the skins of thousands of Generalissimo Francisco Franco's sympathizers. Moreover, the Latin Americans always demanded (and most of the time got) safe conduct for their refugees to the border. Argentina once threatened to send a battleship to Spain to protect refugees held at the summer embassy in San Sebastian, and Argentine protection allowed Ramon Serrano Suner, Minister of Interior in the present Franco Cabinet, to escape from a Madrid prison to Nationalist territory. Peru at one time protected 360 Nationalists...
...former President, who has lectured on democracy at University of Chicago since last February (honorary degrees from Princeton, Yale); Poet Archibald MacLeish, newly appointed Librarian of Congress (Doctor of Letters, Yale); U. S. Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter (Doctor of Civil Law, Oxford), who was saluted with a Latin pun: Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas (Happy indeed is he who can understand legal arguments...
...Expected to up U. S. trade in Latin America is the discovery of a well documented Nazi plot to seize...