Word: mundos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...activities. Promised was a fuller report on Ambassador von Thermann, containing evidence that he received money from ostensible German "welfare" agencies, that he used the money for ends "foreign to his diplomatic character." As the four most influential newspapers in Buenos Aires (La Nación, La Prensa, El Mundo, Critica) issued a simultaneous demand that Acting President RamÓn S. Castillo scrap his policy of neutrality, it looked as if Ambassador von Thermann would soon pack his trunks...
Groaned El Mundo: "A caricature of Argentina . . . police with tropical uniforms and Mexican accents . . . gauchos 'made in Hollywood.' " Sighed La Razon: "It is all part of ... the Good Neighbor Policy recommended by Roosevelt. But truly there are kindnesses that kill...
Attached is a cartoon clipping from this morning's Tampico El Mundo which illustrates the reaction of some Latin Americans to the re-election of President Roosevelt...
...Mexican press blew up. Tampico's El Mundo admitted the action had taken place outside the internationally recognized three-mile limit, but insisted on Mexico's self-established claims to sovereignty as far out as nine miles. Three Mexican gunboats were on duty near by at the time. U. S. interference with a Mexican ship, in Mexican waters, in the presence of Mexican warships was a grave matter. The time had come for a showdown on how far sensitive Latin Americans would sacrifice their pride for the sake of security measures they had helped establish...
known as El Mundo al Dia ("The World to Date"), which was put on by NBC last December as the first U. S. short-wave show ever broadcast commercially...