Word: neighborism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Good Neighbor necessities changed Cordell Hull's tune on expropriation. By 1941, the U.S. had to make a face-saving deal to wash out the rest of its oil mess at a payment by Mexico of $24,000,000 plus interest-a metaphysical figure arrived at by a joint two-man commission of experts.* Last week the State Department announced that Mexico, now fat with U.S. dollars, had made final arrangements to settle its debt in full. With the final annual payment in September 1947, Mexico will own all U.S. oil properties outright for a total...
...officials insisted they had no further ambitions-not even for a new San Diego-to-Nogales route to link the two lines directly. But there was scarcely an airman alive who did not predict: 1) sooner or later LAMSA would compete with Pan Am in more than one Good Neighbor country, and 2) that when it asked for permission to do so, CAB would give it another green light...
...indication that it was too hot to handle. There was no hint of a new post for Welles. There was only Presidential politeness, and a regret that "the state of Mrs. Welles's health" made the resignation advisable. This refrigerated treatment, to the man who invented the Good Neighbor policy, by the man who adopted it, was unprecedented -and mysterious...
...crashing boner in teaming up with Hitler was now added inescapable evidence that Finland had waited too long to open negotiations with her big neighbor and old enemy. Yet Ryti & Co. could not bring themselves to talk hard peace sense; Finland's-innate distrust of Russia was still powerful. Fortnight ago Premier Edwin Linkomies let it be known that Finland would like peace-if she could have her 1939 frontiers. Last week Russophobe Finance Minister Vaino Tanner said Finland would be glad to resume normal relations with Russia, provided "we could get a guarantee that we will...
...found fault with the vagueness of his reference to a worldwide Good Neighbor policy ("a national cooperation with other nations...