Word: najera
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mexico's Francisco Najera: "Shallow, unclear . . . worst...
Francisco Castillo Najera was the impulsive Latin American. Mexico's Foreign Minister, a surgeon, poet and guitar player as well as diplomat, spoke and gestured volubly. In his heavily accented French, he dropped Gallic syllables like Mexican hot tamales. When he rendered Gromyko's cumbersome title, Représentant de I'Union des Républiques Socialistes Soviétiques, it shortened to le représ . . . tant de Union . . . tique. But at tense moments the versatile Mexican was a model of taciturn tact...
Stalwart Ezequiel Padilla, Mexico's Foreign Minister since 1940, resigned last week as the result of a campaign of backstage intrigue and a storm of public criticism. Rivals within the Mexican foreign service, notably Francisco Castillo Najera, Ambassador to the U.S., had long been gunning for 6-ft., spruce Ezequiel, sometimes called "the black Narcissus" because of his darkish skin and elegant attire. Other political opponents may have undermined him with President Avila Camacho, hoping to head him off as a candidate in next year's presidential election...
Evidence of this same enthusiasm for a TIME-produced English-teaching radio program greeted TIME'S Circulation Director, Francis Pratt, wherever he went in Central and South America last spring - and Mexico's Ambassador Francisco Castillo Najera assured us that such a program would "meet with complete success not only in Mexico but throughout Latin America"-because "one of the best ways for the peoples of this hemisphere to strengthen their solidarity is through learning each other's language...
Ideal conditions in Mexico for investigation of volcanic activity and earthquakes, were pointed out by Kirt F. Mather, professor of Geology, in an illustrated lecture delivered yesterday to the visiting Mexican delegation, headed by Francisco Najera, ambassador to this country...