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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...March n issue of your estimable publication appears a brief reference to the death of Mr. Leon Cortes Castro, in which it is stated that this illustrious ex-President of my country was a man of fascist tendencies. Nothing could be farther from the truth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 8, 1946 | 4/8/1946 | See Source »

...Leon Cortes never made any attempts against continental security. As the New York Times said on March 4 of this year, he included in his inaugural address the idea launched by the then President Franklin Roosevelt for the holding of an inter-American peace conference. He worked for the Good Neighbor Policy initiated by the North American President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 8, 1946 | 4/8/1946 | See Source »

...confess to you that all of our Presidents have made errors in the discharge of their duties-who doesn't?-but I wish to state that the foreign policy of all of them has been above reproach. Leon Cortes, in the international field, was a true democrat, as befits a President of Costa Rica...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 8, 1946 | 4/8/1946 | See Source »

...Leon Cortes Castro has fought totalitarianism bitterly. Overstrain fighting such organizations killed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 8, 1946 | 4/8/1946 | See Source »

...with bourbon, 1,800 Democrats uncomplainingly ate the 700-calorie "austerity dinner" (tomato soup, baked chicken, potatoes, salad and one oatmeal cookie) for which they had paid $400 apiece. They whistled, whooped and slapped backs. Soprano Grace Moore rose with a flash of jewels, and sang a hillbilly song. Leon Henderson gave her a cigar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Barbecue | 4/1/1946 | See Source »

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