Word: lima
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With bad taste and good propaganda, an uninvited guest crashed Panama City last week where a party for representatives of the 21 American countries was gathering. The party folks were all Americans, all Lima conferees, all concerned with keeping the American hemisphere out of war. The crasher was a belligerent, a German, an official-Dr. Otto Reinebeck, German minister accredited to all Central American countries-and he brought with him a staff of assistants whose names and number were a guarded secret. Throughout South America, German propaganda agencies simultaneously charged that the parley was merely a device by which...
...fuels, electrical appliances, chemicals, drugs, newsprint which had been coming from Europe. The War Ministry discussed discharging the German military mission which had been instructing land forces. And Argentina heartily endorsed a proposal originated by El Hombre Roosevelt but officially put forward by Panama: that the signatories of the Lima Declaration meet at Panama City late this month to work together on neutrality measures...
When the 21 independent countries of the Americas gathered at Lima last year to draw up an antitotalitarian pact, most of them were determined not to let El Hombre's delegate, Cordell Hull, run the show. Argentina in particular hemmed, took exception, offered substitute phrases. The final draft, a reluctant Argentine compromise, postulated the 21 countries' common interest, provided that in time of crisis the signatories would consult each other. When war broke out fortnight ago, Argentina did a complete about-face and put herself in the forefront of the rush to implement the Lima Declaration...
Messrs. Roosevelt, Hull & Welles wanted a U. S.-Argentina reciprocal trade agreement. So, to shrewd, praise-loving Lamas, Franklin Roosevelt kowtowed with impressive pomp at Buenos Aires in 1936; at Lima...
Hull's assistant and Lima Conference companion, fox-faced Adolf Berle, now occupies the Stimson Washington mansion of Woodley, where Mr. Hull plays croquet weekly. The mild-mannered Secretary, one of the world's most fluent monotone cussers, addresses his opponent's croquet balls (if people have heard him right), saying: "Hitler, you son-of-a-bitch," and "Mussolini, damn you!" before whanging them into Coventry...