Word: latins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ECOSOC (Economic & Social Council) was riding off in all directions. Its Narcotic Drugs Commission discussed the establishment of a commission to investigate the effects of the coca leaf-chewing habit, prevalent in some Latin American countries. Its Committee on One Day's Pay Proposal was proposing a committee to propose that all the world's citizens donate one day's pay for needy mothers & children. ECOSOC has 17 other commissions and subcommissions...
...committee was headed for Hollywood to investigate labor racketeering. House and Senate committees were planning to tour the U.S., checking up on housing, agriculture, high prices. But at least half-a-dozen separate committees and subcommittees were heading for Europe, three for Alaska, three for the Pacific, one to Latin America. Before they all return to Washington next January, 100 or more Senators and Congressmen in dozens of committees and subcommittees will spend upwards of $2 million crisscrossing the U.S. and circling the globe...
...headstrong Assistant Secretary of State Spruille Braden on the ground that the U.S. had no business sitting down at the same table with Argentina. The scorching, inside battle that Braden's bull-in-china-shop action precipitated among U.S. diplomats made confusion of the U.S.'s Latin American policy, which was not too clear in the first place. Now that Braden and ex-Ambassador George Messersmith, his chief antagonist, are out, and the Administration has had a chance to collect its wits, U.S. policy is more sure, although there is still some Bradenism in the State Department...
Foreign traders hoped that U.S. loans under the "Marshall approach" would bolster exports. But the nations which have been buying the bulk of U.S. exports-Latin America and Canada-are outside the scope of the plan. They would be helped only indirectly through trade with those who might get loans. But any loans were too far in the future to be of any immediate help. This week, the British Government, convinced that no U.S. relief was in sight this year, is considering cutting its imports by another...
Died. Tomás Berreta, 71, President of Uruguay; after an operation; in Montevideo (see LATIN AMERICA...