Word: najera
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Dr. Francisco Castillo Najera, 68, Mexican career diplomat, onetime (1935-45) ambassador to the U.S., chairman of the U.N. Security Council in 1946, general in the Mexican Army, surgeon, poet and musician; after long illness; in Mexico City. As ambassador to the U.S., Najera worked to implement the Good Neighbor Policy, was instrumental in setting up the 1942 settlement of $40 million in U.S. claims against the Mexican government, including those for American-owned oil lands seized by Mexico...