Word: latinizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Simon Bolivar, hero of Latin America, called the first Pan-American Congress. It met in Panama in 1826 and wrote a treaty of "perpetual confederation." Typical of that meeting were two facts: only one nation, Colombia, ever ratified the treaty; the U. S. delegates, appointed by President John Quincy Adams, arrived after the meeting had adjourned...
...bout between Bolivia and Paraguay. Actually the favorable opportunity was created not in the jungles of the Chaco but in the long corridors of the U. S. State Department. Part of it was the long planning of Assistant Secretary of State Sumner Welles, one of the abler gentlemen in Latin-American diplomacy. More of it was a wholly new era of U. S.-Latin-American relations resulting from Cordell Hull's inability to be anything but a kindly judge from Tennessee. The rest of it was Franklin Roosevelt...
...Latin Americans. That afternoon Mr. Hull paid his official call on Argentina's President Agustin Justo and next day he began to make his round of the delegations. At the last Pan-American Conference at Montevideo three years ago Mr. Hull flabbergasted and charmed his Latin-American colleagues: instead of paying them formally arranged visits he dropped in unannounced and waited his turn to be received; instead of going in top hat and cutaway, he clapped his grey fedora on his thin white hair and simply went calling.* As a class, Latin-American diplomats have been schooled abroad...
...American conferences in the world will not keep the United States out of another world conflict, unless Washington, in cooperation with the Latin-American desire for organized peace, takes bold steps to crush the opportunity for commercial profit from a foreign war. Politically this country is isolated from Europe, but not so commercially...
Admittedly, the classics have taken more than their share of blows ever the last few years, but logic, one of the classical virtues, can hardly defend the present system. Even Professor Rand, our own Matthew Arnold, would admit that. And an examination in their Latin given at the end of the college course might discourage even the most persistent advocate of this new Caesarism...