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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Delegate Arthur Vandenberg. "Señor Presidente y amigos," he began (after that he relapsed into English). Before the session was over, Argentine Delegate Pascual La Rosa strode clear across the Quitandinha's salmon-pink conference salon to hug the Senator in a warm Latin abrazo. The latest U.S.-Argentine dispute had dissolved in love & kisses. The tracks were cleared for the signing of the Inter-American Defense Treaty when President Truman reaches Rio this week (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE HEMISPHERE: Love & Kisses | 9/8/1947 | See Source »

...said: "I will consider my trip really useful if I can help make Brazil known and understood by the North American public." Handsome Author Tavares never returned to his job as professor of biology at the University of São Paulo. Discovering that "in Latin American matters, the ignorance of the North American is astonishing," he set about the job of informing the U.S., at least about Brazil. In five years he has visited 38 states, lectured at 75 U.S. universities and colleges...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: Plain Speaker | 9/8/1947 | See Source »

...three Brazilians are illiterate, "a high figure even for Latin America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: Plain Speaker | 9/8/1947 | See Source »

...that by geography, politics and the facts of trade Canada is part of the Western Hemisphere's family of nations. And yet, like the prewar U.S. isolationists, they hate to admit it. That was why suggestions that Canada sign the hemispheric defense treaty drawn up at Petropolis (see LATIN AMERICA) were so embarrassing. The thought of joining with the Pan American Union set off a rash of Canadian rationalization...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: EXTERNAL AFFAIRS: Embarrassing | 9/8/1947 | See Source »

...Vincent Massey, former High Commissioner to London, in Maclean's: "Our position will remain more dignified and also more effective by maintaining our own special relations with [the U.S.] than by assimilating our position to that of a group of 20 republics. . . . Let us cultivate good relations with Latin America in our own way and not as a cog in the Pan American machine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: EXTERNAL AFFAIRS: Embarrassing | 9/8/1947 | See Source »

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